Radeon HD 6790 and Radeon RX Vega 5 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6790
Radeon RX Vega 5
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Barts
Vega
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2011
January 2020
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
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1400 MHz
Core clock speed
840 MHz
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Floating-point performance
1,344.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
320
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
33.60
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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HDMI
+
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12_1
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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