AMD Radeon Pro W6800X vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2087MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6800X +184%

16.03 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

-

2087 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

44

-

3840

Shading Units

2816

240

TMUs

176

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

200.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

500.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

32.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.03 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

1002 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

580W

550 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

Apple MPX

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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