GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon HD 6290

GeForce RTX 3090
Memory: 24576Mb GDDR6XDESKTOP
Release date: 1 Sep 2020
GeForce RTX 3090
Radeon HD 6290
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 6290

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3090

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6290

331 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3090 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3090

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3090

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3090Radeon HD 6290
GPU NameGA102 (GA102-300-A1)vsCedar (Cedar LE)
Fab Process8 nmvs40 nm
Die Size628 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors28,000 millionvs292 million
Shaders10496vs80
Compute Units82vs2
Core clock1395 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs112vs4
TMUs328vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3090Radeon HD 6290
Memory TypeGDDR6XvsGDDR3
Bus Width384 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1219 MHz
19.5 Gbps effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size24576 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3090Radeon HD 6290
TDP350 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date1 Sep 2020vs4 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3090
    189.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6290
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3090
    556.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6290
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3090
    936.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6290
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3090
    35580.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6290
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better