GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 290X2

GeForce RTX 2060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2019
GeForce RTX 2060
Radeon R9 290X2
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Jun 2014
Radeon R9 290X2
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060

420 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290X2

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon R9 290X2
GPU NameTU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1)vsHawaii (Hawaii XT)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size445 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors10,800 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders1920vs2816
Compute Units30vs44
Core clock1365 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs48vs64
TMUs120vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon R9 290X2
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs512 bit x2
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon R9 290X2
TDP160 wattsvs580 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2019vs24 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    80.64 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 290X2
    128.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    201.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 290X2
    352.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    336.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 290X2
    692.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    6451.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 290X2
    11264.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better