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Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 290X uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular model. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which features GPU clock speed of 2055 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2190 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 290X should in theory be a little bit superior to the Radeon RX 6650 XT overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT is quite a bit (more or less 87%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 140800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 122240 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6650 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X 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 290X Radeon RX 6650 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 May 2022
Code Name Hawaii XT 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 140800 Mtexels/sec 263040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 51200 Mpixels/sec 131520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2816 2048
Texture Mapping Units 176 128
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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon R9 290X

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