AMD Radeon Pro W6800 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W6800

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800 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 Pro W6800 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2320MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6800 +267%

17.82 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jun 2021

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2075 MHz

Base Clock

-

2320 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

40

-

3840

Shading Units

2560

240

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

222.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

556.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

35.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

17.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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