AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 134.4GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +140%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 6870

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

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

14

-

2560

Shading Units

1120

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

151W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Barts

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

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

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA T600

2

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

3

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

4

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

5

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 4350 AGP

6

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

7

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

8

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM

9

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

10

AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster