AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +576%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

800

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA106

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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