AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jan 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi II
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2248 MHz
Base Clock
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2310 MHz
Boost Clock
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2815 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
64bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
143.9GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
16
Shading Units
2560
1024
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1024 KB
RT Cores
—
16
L3 Cache
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16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
90.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
5.765 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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11.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 24
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Navi 24 XT(215-135000006)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
5.4 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
107 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
107W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.