Radeon HD 6790 and Radeon HD 7770 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6790 vs Radeon HD 7770
Radeon HD 6790
1664
Radeon HD 7770
2235
Radeon HD 6790
Radeon HD 7770
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Barts
Cape Verde
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
February 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
840 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,344.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
640
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
33.60
40.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131