AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1919 points
1% slightly better overall score
1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
49 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
18 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43342 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
40962 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44042 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
37410 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

947 MHz
1537 MHz
62% significantly higher boost clock speed

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
233% significantly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s
30% slightly higher pixel rate
49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176 Gigatexels/s
78% significantly higher texture rate
98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816
37% slightly more shading units
2048

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
221st of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 March

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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