NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2505MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

15360 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (290W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +1516%

91.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Dec 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

Quadro Ada

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

18176

Shading Units

2816

568

TMUs

176

192

ROPs

64

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

481.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

1423 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

91.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

91.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

1423 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Hawaii

AD102

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

290W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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