AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 6600M

Compare AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600M 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1901 points

3903 points

105% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

92 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

57 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS

77 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

36 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3987 points

8165 points

104% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43067 points

63711 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48969 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47653 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43342 points

70251 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44042 points

75065 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

947 MHz

2416 MHz

155% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320 GB/s

42% much higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

100 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

154.6 Gigapixels/s

141% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176 Gigatexels/s

274.2 Gigatexels/s

55% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.63 TFLOPS

8.77 TFLOPS

55% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

57% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

57% significantly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

220th of 604

126th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 6600M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6600M beats the Radeon R9 290X in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6600M has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Radeon R9 290X at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600M is better than the Radeon R9 290X.