Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs HD 6290

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameCedarPolaris 20
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 December 2011 (12 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores802304
Core clock speed650 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz1077 MHz
Number of transistors292 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate5.200155.1
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS4.963 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs8144

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 December 2011 11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 100 Watt

HD 6290 has 426.3% lower power consumption.

RX 580X Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6290 and Radeon RX 580X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6290 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 580X Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6290
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