AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790 AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +625%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jul 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1605 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

40

800

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 10

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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