Radeon RX 6650 XT vs Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650 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 6650 XT Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2635MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (176W vs 275W)
Radeon R9 290 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 280.3GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+122%
10790
Radeon R9 290
4849
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+168%
9926
Radeon R9 290
3694
Graphics Card
May 2022
Release Date
Nov 2013
Navi II
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2055 MHz
Base Clock
-
2635 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2190 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
280.3GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
40
2048
Shading Units
2560
128
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
32
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
168.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
337.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
21.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.79 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
674.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
176W
TDP
275W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 23
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 23 KXT
(215-130000136)
(215-130000136)
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
(215-0852020)
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
11.06 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
237 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.3
