AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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AMD Radeon HD 6790 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 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 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +847%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Sep 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA104

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 12-pin

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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