Radeon HD 6790 and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6790

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Barts

GP108

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

March 2018

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1379 MHz

Core clock speed

840 MHz

1152 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,344.0 gflops

1,059 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

384

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

33.60

33.10

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

2100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

16.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131