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Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 290 makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features clock speeds of 2321 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 230 Watts
Radeon R9 290 300 Watts
Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should perform much faster than the Radeon R9 290 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 393216 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290 320000 MB/sec
Difference: 73216 (23%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a lot (more or less 190%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290 128000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 243360 (190%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290 51200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 97344 (190%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 290 Radeon RX 6700 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2013 March 2021
Code Name Hawaii PRO Navi 22
Memory 4096 MB (Unknown) MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 2321 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 4000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 230 watts
Bandwidth 320000 MB/sec 393216 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128000 Mtexels/sec 371360 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 51200 Mpixels/sec 148544 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 2560
Texture Mapping Units 160 160
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 512-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 6200 million 17200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 290

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Radeon RX 6700 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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