Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2815MHz
Lower TDP (107W vs 275W)
Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+18%
5765
Radeon R9 290
4849
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+34%
4953
Radeon R9 290
3694
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2013
Navi II
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
-
2815 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2248 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
40
1024
Shading Units
2560
64
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
11.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.765 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
107W
TDP
275W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 24
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.4 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
107 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.3
