AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
May 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
2280 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2497 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
3840
TMUs
176
120
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
32 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
119.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
19.18 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.18 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GB206
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
GB206-250-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
21.9 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
181 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
145W
Suggested PSU
950 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
6.3
6.8
CUDA
-
12.0
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
13,735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
6,452
3DMark Speed Way
-
3,494