AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1582MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +743%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1481 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1582 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

352bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

484.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

800

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

88

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

0 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

139.2 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

354.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

177.2 GFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

354.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GP102

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

GP102-350-K1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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