AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon HD 6670

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6670 's Advantages

Lower TDP (66W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +531%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6670

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 6670

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

6

2560

Shading Units

480

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Turks

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Turks XT (215-0803000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

66W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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