NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 2

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Barts

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Celsius

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

1.5

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

Shader Model

5.0

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