AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
Jun 2025
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi IV
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
2518 MHz
Base Clock
—
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
—
3130 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
322.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
32
Shading Units
2816
2048
TMUs
176
128
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
1024 KB
4 MB
RT Cores
—
32
L3 Cache
—
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
200.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
400.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
25.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
801.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
51.28 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 44
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Navi 44 XT(215-176400102)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
29.7 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
199 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
160W
Suggested PSU
950 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b2x DisplayPort 2.1a
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
2.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
16,494
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
7,616
3DMark Speed Way
—
2,995
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.