Radeon HD 6790 and GF119 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6790

GF119

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Barts

GF119

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

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Core clock speed

840 MHz

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Floating-point performance

1,344.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

292 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

48

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

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Texture fill rate

33.60

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

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2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

-

VP5