AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

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AMD Radeon HD 6790 AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1284MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

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

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +291%

5.259 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

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Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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