AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 770 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 230W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 770 +147%

3.333 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

GeForce GTX 770

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

May 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1046 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.72 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

138.9 GTexel/s

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.333 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

138.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GK104

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

GK104-425-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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