AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +625%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Apr 2011

Navi

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

-

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

10

-

2560

Shading Units

800

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 OEM

2

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100

3

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

4

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs ATI FirePro V9800

5

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon R5 435 OEM

6

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 210

7

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

8

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2

9

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

10

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game