NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

9952 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 +3931%

54.19 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 50

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

973.8GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

800

336

TMUs

40

128

ROPs

16

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

846.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

54.19 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

54.19 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

846.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

Barts

GB203-400-A1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 510 OEM

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs ATI FirePro V3800

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU