AMD Radeon HD 6230 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

2480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +4562%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Nov 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

40

80

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

5.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

104.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Park

GPU Name

Hawaii

Park S3 LP

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

59 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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