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 6800 XT

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2250 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

28,243

199,366

geekbench_opencl

24,008

154,506

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,689

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

152,200

passmark_directx_10

N/A

155

passmark_directx_11

N/A

264

passmark_directx_12

N/A

100

passmark_directx_9

N/A

265

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,030

passmark_g3d

N/A

24,980

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

13,245

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R9 M290X

RX 6800 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

4,608 +260.0%

Shaders

1,280

4,608 +260.0%

TMUs

80

288 +260.0%

ROPs

32

128 +300.0%

Compute Units

20

72 +260.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

1825 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2250 MHz

Game Clock

—

2015 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

16,384 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

512 KB

4 MB

L3 Cache

—

128 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

288.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.304 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

1,296.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

41.47 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

72

Power

TDP

100 W

300 W

TDP (W)

100

300 +200.0%

Suggested PSU

—

700 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Neptune

Navi 21

Generation

Gem System (R9 M200)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

28 nm

7 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

26,800 million

Die Size

212 mm²

520 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.2M / mm²

51.5M / 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)

2.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

120 mm 4.7 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Solar System

Navi

Successor

Polaris Mobile

Navi III

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