AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages
Lower TDP (127W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
+225%
4.849 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6850
1.488 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290
3694
Radeon HD 6850
+29%
4799
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Oct 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
960
160
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.80 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1488 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
275W
TDP
127W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
Barts
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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6.3
Shader Model
5.0
