AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 107W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +5443%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2011

Navi II

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

2

-

1024

Shading Units

80

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

107W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Cedar

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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