AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1919 points
1956 points
1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

43 FPS
59 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
40 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS
51 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
23 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43342 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
39238 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44042 points
46114 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

947 MHz
2400 MHz
153% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
700% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320 GB/s
150% significantly higher memory bandwidth
128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
50 W
400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s
76.8 Gigapixels/s
20% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176 Gigatexels/s
13% slightly higher texture rate
155.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.63 TFLOPS
13% slightly better floating point performance
4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816
175% significantly more shading units
1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176
175% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

220th of 604
215th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

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