AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 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 21.34GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790 +250%

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

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Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Dec 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

4

800

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

RV730

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

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CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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