AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4528 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +19842%

20.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Dec 2011

Navi II

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

-

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

72

Compute Units

2

4608

Shading Units

80

288

TMUs

8

128

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Cedar

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

19W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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