AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790 +12%

1.344 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Apr 2011

FireStream

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

800

Shading Units

800

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Barts

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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