Radeon HD 6790 and GeForce GT 1030 GK107 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6790

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

Barts

GK107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

September 2018

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

840 MHz

1058 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,344.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

1,270 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

384

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

65 Watt

Texture fill rate

33.60

33.86

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

80 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126