NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +380%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1920

Shading Units

800

120

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Barts

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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