AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +387%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3681

Radeon RX 6950 XT +482%

21448

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

May 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1860 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

80

2560

Shading Units

5120

160

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 21

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

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

Board Design

275W

TDP

335W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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