Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs R6 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated21
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.33
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameSpectre LiteNavi 31
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 September 2014 (10 years ago)27 July 2023 (1 year 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 cores3845120
Core clock speed533 MHz1287 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHz2245 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate14.40718.4
Floating-point processing power0.4608 TFLOPS45.98 TFLOPS
ROPs8160
TMUs24320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data276 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data576.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.06.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 27 July 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 260 Watt

R6 Graphics has 1633.3% lower power consumption.

RX 7900 GRE, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 Graphics and Radeon RX 7900 GRE. We've got no test results to judge.


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