Radeon HD 6790 and FirePro V5900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6790 vs FirePro V5900
Radeon HD 6790
1664
FirePro V5900
1301
Radeon HD 6790
FirePro V5900
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
Barts
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2011
May 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
840 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,344.0 gflops
614.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
512
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
33.60
19.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
64 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A