GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile vs Radeon R9 M290X

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking494not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.21no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNeptuneTU106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 January 2014 (10 years ago)9 July 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12802176
Compute units20no data
Core clock speed850 MHz1470 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1530 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate72.00208.1
Floating-point processing power2.304 TFLOPS6.659 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs80136
Tensor Coresno data272
Ray Tracing Coresno data34

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCIe 3.0 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
PowerTune+-
DualGraphics+-
ZeroCore+-
Switchable graphics+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCLNot Listed3.0
Vulkan-1.3
Mantle+-
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 January 2014 9 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 175 Watt

R9 M290X has 75% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M290X and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 M290X
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