Radeon HD 6290 and Amethyst - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6290

Amethyst

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

Zacate

Amethyst

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

July 2011

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Boost clock speed

400 MHz

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Core clock speed

280 MHz

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Floating-point performance

104 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

292 million

5,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

80

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

19 Watt

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Texture fill rate

5.200

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

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Shared memory

+

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

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HDMI

+

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170