AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2491MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (132W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 +84%

8.928 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3681

Radeon RX 6600 +119%

8083

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon RX 6600

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1626 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2491 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

28

2560

Shading Units

1792

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

159.4 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

279.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

17.86 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.928 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

558.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Navi 23

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

132W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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