AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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AMD Radeon HD 6790 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +1105%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

4864

40

TMUs

152

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA104

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

GA104-202-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

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

6.7

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