GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon HD 6790
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
2144 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+649%
10070
Radeon HD 6790
1344
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 20
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
-
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
800
184
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.44 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1344 GFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
150W
550 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 Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Barts
TU104-400A-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
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
