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GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

The GeForce RTX 2060 has core clock speeds of 1365 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1920 SPUs as well as 120 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060 160 Watts
Radeon R9 290X 300 Watts
Difference: 140 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2060 will be 8% faster than the Radeon R9 290X in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X 320000 MB/sec
Difference: 24064 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is a little bit (more or less 16%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 140800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 23000 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 51200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14320 (28%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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GeForce RTX 2060

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 2060 Radeon R9 290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2019 October 2013
Code Name TU106-200A-KA-A1 Hawaii XT
Memory 6144 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1365 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 344064 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 163800 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 65520 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1920 2816
Texture Mapping Units 120 176
Render Output Units 48 64
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 10800 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 2060

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Radeon R9 290X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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