AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500M and AMD Radeon R9 290X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

AMD Radeon R9 290X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.5x more boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 947 MHz
872.7x more texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 176.0 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 24 October 2013
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz vs 947 MHz
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s vs 176.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X

2.8x more pipelines: 2816 vs 1024
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 757 vs 384
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8567 vs 7608
Around 11% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 43410 vs 39072

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2816 vs 1024
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	757 vs 384
PassMark - G3D Mark	8567 vs 7608
Geekbench - OpenCL	43410 vs 39072

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

384

757

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7608

8567

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

39072

43410

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	AMD Radeon R9 290X
PassMark - G2D Mark	384	757
PassMark - G3D Mark	7608	8567
Geekbench - OpenCL	39072	43410
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		117.322
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2460.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		11.12
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		120.942
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		628.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		7055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		7055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3932

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	AMD Radeon R9 290X
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Navi 24	Hawaii
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	24 October 2013
Place in performance rating	292	289
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$549
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz	947 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.915 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2816
Pixel fill rate	76.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s	176.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		5,632 gflops
Stream Processors		2560
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		275 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	320 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)