Radeon HD 6790 and Radeon HD 5830 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6790 vs Radeon HD 5830
Radeon HD 6790
1664
Radeon HD 5830
1785
Radeon HD 6790
Radeon HD 5830
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Barts
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
840 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,344.0 gflops
1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
1120
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
33.60
44.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A