NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1815MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +729%

11.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 20

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1650 MHz

Base Clock

-

1815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

495.9GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

3072

Shading Units

800

192

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

384

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

116.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

348.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

22.30 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

348.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Barts

TU104-450-A1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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