Radeon HD 6790 and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6790 vs GeForce FX 5500
Radeon HD 6790
1664
GeForce FX 5500
8
Radeon HD 6790
GeForce FX 5500
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Barts
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
840 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,344.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
-
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
33.60
1.080
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0a
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A