AMD Radeon HD 6290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

#ad
Buy
VS
#ad
Buy

General info

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

Place in performance ranking108not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money76.67no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIZacate
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date22 September 2015 (8 years old)1 July 2011 (12 years old)
Current price$301 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores409680
Core clock speed1126 MHz280 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors10400 Million292 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt19 Watt
Texture fill rateno data5.200
Floating-point performanceno data104 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon HD 6290 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+no data

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memory-+

Video outputs and ports

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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMIno data+
G-SYNC support+no data

API support

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

DirectX12_111.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkanno dataN/A
CUDA+no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 47704
+9498%
HD 6290 497

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 6290 by 9498% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 33169
+18430%
HD 6290 179

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 6290 by 18430% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 22 September 2015 1 July 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 19 Watt

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon HD 6290. We've got no test results to judge.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

User ratings

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite graphics card.


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
AMD Radeon HD 6290
Radeon HD 6290

Similar GPU comparisons

We selected several comparisons of graphics cards with performance close to those reviewed, providing you with more options to consider.

User ratings: view and submit

Here you can see the user rating of the graphics cards, as well as rate them yourself.


3.3 65 votes

Rate NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
2.7 38 votes

Rate AMD Radeon HD 6290 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions and comments

Here you can ask a question about this comparison, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.