AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 SE
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
Jan 2026
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2377 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
512bit
384bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
1.34TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
14080
TMUs
176
440
ROPs
64
160
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
96 MB
SM Count
-
110
Tensor Cores
-
440
RT Cores
-
110
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
380.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
1045.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
66.94 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
1045.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
66.94 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GB202
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
-
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
750 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
500W
Suggested PSU
950 W
900 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
1x 16-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
6.9
CUDA
-
12.0