AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
May 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi II
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2250 MHz
Base Clock
-
1860 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2310 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
576.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
80
Shading Units
2816
5120
TMUs
176
320
ROPs
64
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
1024 KB
4 MB
RT Cores
-
80
L3 Cache
-
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
295.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
739.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
23.65 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
1478 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
47.31 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Navi 21
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Navi 21 KXTX(215-121000289)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
26.8 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
520 mm²
Board Design
TDP
290W
335W
Suggested PSU
600 W
700 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.5