AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 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 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

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

6880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +2882%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2610 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

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

60

800

Shading Units

7680

40

TMUs

240

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

285W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Processor

Barts

GPU Name

AD104

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

295 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

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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