AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs AMD FirePro RG220A

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

AMD FirePro RG220A

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790 +1580%

1.344 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

FirePro RG220A

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

May 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

1

-

800

Shading Units

80

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

M93

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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