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Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 290 has a GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2055 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 2190 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 176 Watts
Radeon R9 290 300 Watts
Difference: 124 Watts (70%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290 should be 11% faster than the Radeon RX 6650 XT in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 290 320000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6650 XT 287072 MB/sec
Difference: 32928 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 106%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290 128000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 135040 (106%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 157%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290 51200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 80320 (157%)

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 6650 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2013 May 2022
Code Name Hawaii PRO Navi 23
Memory 4096 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 2055 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 4380 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 176 watts
Bandwidth 320000 MB/sec 287072 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128000 Mtexels/sec 263040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 51200 Mpixels/sec 131520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 2048
Texture Mapping Units 160 128
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 512-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 6200 million 11060 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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory 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 6650 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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