GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon HD 6790
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
4064 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+1105%
16200
Radeon HD 6790
1344
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
800
152
TMUs
40
80
ROPs
16
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.44 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1344 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Barts
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
Barts LE
(215-0798002)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
392 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
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.0
