AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3296 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +875%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Apr 2011

Radeon Pro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

10

-

4096

Shading Units

800

256

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Barts

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

495 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

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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