AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 X2 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCI

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

3.200GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

2

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

560.0 MPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.120 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

NV44

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.075 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

110 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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