AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCI

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce 6200 PCI

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCI

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

3.200GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

2

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

560.0 MPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.120 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

Unknown

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

NV44

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.075 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

110 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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