AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

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AMD Radeon HD 6790 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

6368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +2539%

35.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

7168

40

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

56

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

198.0 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

554.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.48 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.48 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

554.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

AD104

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

AD104-350-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

220W

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 16-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

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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