Radeon HD 6790 and GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6790

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Barts

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1852 MHz

Core clock speed

840 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,344.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

185 Watt

Texture fill rate

33.60

222.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3