Radeon R9 290X vs RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 96GB VRAM RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (290W vs 300W)
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max Q 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2288MHz
More VRAM (96GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
21248 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
5632
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max Q
+1854%
110100
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Mar 2025
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1590 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2288 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
96GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
188
2816
Shading Units
24064
176
TMUs
752
64
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
752
-
RT Cores
188
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
439.3 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1721 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
110.1 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
110.1 TFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.721 TFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
300W
600 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GB202
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
12.0
6.3
Shader Model
6.8