AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA NVS 510

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790 NVIDIA NVS 510

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 2GB VRAM NVS 510 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 510 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (35W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790 +339%

1.344 TFLOPS

NVS 510

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVS 510

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

192

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GK107

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

GK107-301-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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