AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6850M XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 165W)

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 187% (2581MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6850M XT +473%

13.21 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

Radeon RX 6850M XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

Crystal System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

40

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

165W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Navi 22

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XTM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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