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AMD Radeon HD 6290
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon HD 6290 based on its noise and power.
See full details Radeon HD 6290 vs GeForce GTS 250 |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly lower TDP | 19W | vs | 150W | 7.9x lower TDP | |||
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 73.6 GB/s | vs | 12.8 GB/s | Around 5.8x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Better PassMark score | 893 | vs | 136 | More than 6.5x better PassMark score | |||
| Higher clock speed | 750 MHz | vs | 650 MHz | More than 15% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 2,300 MHz | vs | 1,600 MHz | Around 45% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher texture rate | 48 GTexel/s | vs | 5.2 GTexel/s | Around 9.2x higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 64 | vs | 8 | 56 more texture mapping units | |||
| Significantly wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit | 4x wider memory bus | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 12 GPixel/s | vs | 2.6 GPixel/s | More than 4.5x higher pixel rate | |||
| More render output processors | 16 | vs | 4 | 12 more render output processors | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,150 MHz | vs | 800 MHz | Around 45% higher memory clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 6290 vs GeForce GTS 250
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
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PassMark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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