AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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AMD Radeon HD 6790 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +181%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

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Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

32

800

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

New Zealand

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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