GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

CORE STATE Neptune

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 900 MHz

TDP 100 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

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AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 6500 XT

CORE STATE Navi 24

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2815 MHz

TDP 107 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

28,243

N/A

geekbench_opencl

24,008

48,915

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

235

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

54,648

passmark_directx_10

N/A

60

passmark_directx_11

N/A

90

passmark_directx_12

N/A

38

passmark_directx_9

N/A

108

passmark_g2d

N/A

815

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,608

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,456

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R9 M290X

RX 6500 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

1,024 -20.0%

Shaders

1,280

1,024 -20.0%

TMUs

80

64 -20.0%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

20

16 -20.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2815 MHz

Game Clock

—

2610 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

2248 MHz 18 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

143.9 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

512 KB

1024 KB

L3 Cache

—

16 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

90.08 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.304 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

16

Power

TDP

100 W

107 W

TDP (W)

100

107 +7.0%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Neptune

Navi 24

Generation

Gem System (R9 M200)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

28 nm

6 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

5,400 million

Die Size

212 mm²

107 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.2M / mm²

50.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x HDMI 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Other

Launch Price

—

199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Solar System

Navi

Successor

Polaris Mobile

Navi III

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