Radeon RX 7600 vs Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 7600 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2655MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (165W vs 580W)
Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 7600
+286%
21750
Radeon R9 290X2
5632
Graphics Card
May 2023
Release Date
Jun 2014
Navi III
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1720 MHz
Base Clock
-
2655 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
44
2048
Shading Units
2816
128
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
32
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
169.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
339.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
43.50 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
21.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
679.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
580W
450 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 33
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 33 XL
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
RDNA 3.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
13.3 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
204 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.3
