AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD 2013-11
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AMD Radeon RX 6500M

AMD 2022-01

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2013
Jan 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Mobility Radeon
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2250 MHz
Base Clock
-
2000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2400 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
64bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
144.0GB/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
-
16 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
76.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
153.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
4.915 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
307.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.830 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 24
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Navi 24 XM
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
50W
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

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

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