AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 96GB VRAM RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (500W vs 600W)
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2617MHz
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 295X2
5.733 TFLOPS
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
+2097%
126 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
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
2617 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
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
502.5 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1968 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
126.0 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
126.0 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.968 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
600W
900 W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GB202
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
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
