AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1855MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500 +288%

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Feb 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1744 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

22

-

800

Shading Units

1408

40

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 14

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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