AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2105MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6800
+233%
16.17 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290
3694
Radeon RX 6800
+338%
16182
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Oct 2020
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2105 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
60
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
3840
160
TMUs
240
64
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
60
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
202.1 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
505.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
32.33 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.17 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1010 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
Navi 21
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
Navi 21 XL
(215-121000187)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
26.8 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
6.5
