AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

2096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (86W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +458%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

1.008 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

9

2816

Shading Units

720

176

TMUs

36

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1008 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Juniper

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Juniper LE (215-0754009)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

86W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

2

AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

4

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

6

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

7

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

8

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

9

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8510 OEM

10

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM