AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2087MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X +184%

16.03 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

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Radeon Pro W6800X

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Aug 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1800 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2087 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

60

2816

Shading Units

3840

176

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

200.4 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

500.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

32.06 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.03 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1002 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 21

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

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

580W

TDP

200W

950 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

Apple MPX

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

6.7

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