NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +667%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2011

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

800

224

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.0

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