Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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