AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 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 6930 's Advantages

Lower TDP (186W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930

1.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +152%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Dec 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

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

40

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

186W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

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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