AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2150MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

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

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6900X +290%

22.02 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

-

2150 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

80

Compute Units

44

-

5120

Shading Units

2816

320

TMUs

176

128

ROPs

64

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

275.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

688.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

44.03 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

1376 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

290W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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