AMD Radeon RX 6700 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6700

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock2450MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (175W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 +100%

11.29 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2021

Release Date

Jun 2014

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1941 MHz

Base Clock

-

2450 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

44

-

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

80 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

156.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

352.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

22.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

705.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 22 XTL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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