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GPU Comparison
AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
VS
AMD Radeon R9 290X
AMD Radeon HD 6870
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290X 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1696 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages
Lower TDP (151W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+179%
5.632 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6870
2.016 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X
VS
Radeon HD 6870
Graphics Card
Oct 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
-
Base Clock
-
-
Boost Clock
-
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
-
SM Count
-
44
Compute Units
14
2816
Shading Units
1120
176
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
-
-
RT Cores
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
-
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
Barts
Hawaii XT (215-0852000)
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
Board Design
290W
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 Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
-
6.3
Shader Model
5.0
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