AMD Radeon HD 6670 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Turks Hawaii
GPU variant Turks XT (215-0803000) Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 716 million 6,200 million
Die size 118 mm² 438 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 19th, 2011 Nov 5th, 2013
Generation Northern Islands Volcanic Islands
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 99 USD 399 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 35 in our database 69 in our database
Predecessor Evergreen Sea Islands
Successor Southern Islands Pirate Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 800 MHz 947 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 512 bit
Bandwidth 64.00 GB/s 320.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 480 2560
TMUs 24 160
ROPs 8 64
Compute units 6 40
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 256 KB 1024 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.400 GPixel/s 60.61 GPixel/s
Texture rate 19.20 GTexel/s 151.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 768.0 GFLOPS 4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 606.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches 275 mm 10.8 inches
TDP 66 W 275 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number C334 C671-57
Width 109 mm 4.3 inches
Height 36 mm 1.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 5.0 6.3

Other Features

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