AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs AMD FirePro W600

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

AMD FirePro W600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790 +75%

1.344 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

8

-

800

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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