GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon HD 6790 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280 vs Radeon HD 6790
GeForce GTX 280
1338
Radeon HD 6790
1664
GeForce GTX 280
Radeon HD 6790
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GT200
Barts
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
April 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
602 MHz
840 MHz
CUDA cores
240
-
Floating-point performance
622.1 gflops
1,344.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
240
800
Power consumption (TDP)
236 Watt
150 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
48.2 billion/sec
33.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1107 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth
141.7 GB/s
134.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A