AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon Pro W6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2320MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800 +216%

17.82 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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Radeon Pro W6800

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2075 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2320 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

60

-

2816

Shading Units

3840

176

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

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

222.7 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

35.64 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

17.82 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1114 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 21

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

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

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6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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