AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

Lower TDP (107W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +18%

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3681

Radeon RX 6500 XT +33%

4918

Radeon R9 290

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

16

2560

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 24

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

107W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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