Radeon R9 M290X and Radeon RX 6850M XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M290X vs Radeon RX 6850M XT
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
Radeon RX 6850M XT
17707
Radeon R9 M290X
Radeon RX 6850M XT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Neptune
Navi 22
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
January 2022
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
2463 MHz
Compute units
20
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
17,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
145 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
413.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
384.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-