AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jul 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi II
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1968 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2589 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
32
Shading Units
2560
2048
TMUs
160
128
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
RT Cores
-
32
L3 Cache
-
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
165.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
331.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
10.60 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
662.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
21.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 23
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Navi 23 XT(215-130000006)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
11.06 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
237 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
160W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,694
9,656
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
4,399
3DMark Speed Way
-
1,675
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
144
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
38
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
-
29
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
72
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
-
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
119
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
58
Blender
-
1,213
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
-
58
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
111
GTA 5 2160p
-
61
GTA 5 1440p
-
82
GTA 5 1080p
-
149