Radeon HD 6790 and GeForce 820A - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6790 vs GeForce 820A
Radeon HD 6790
1664
GeForce 820A
572
Radeon HD 6790
GeForce 820A
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Barts
GF117
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
March 2014
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
840 MHz
775 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,344.0 gflops
297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
96
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
33.60
12.40
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A