Radeon RX 6900 vs Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta-16

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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 data18.91
ArchitectureFahrenheit (1998−2000)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNV5 B6Navi 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date22 March 1999 (25 years ago)28 October 2020 (4 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 coresno data4608
Core clock speed100 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data2105 MHz
Number of transistors15 million23,000 million
Manufacturing process technology250 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data255 Watt
Texture fill rate0.2606.2
Floating-point processing powerno data19.4 TFLOPS
ROPs264
TMUs2288

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 MB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed133 MHz16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth1.064 GB/s512.0 GB/s

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 VGA1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 1999 28 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 250 nm 7 nm

RX 6900 has an age advantage of 21 year, a 102300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3471.4% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta-16
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