Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 6790 - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon HD 6790
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Vega
Barts
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2020
April 2011
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
2100 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
840 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,344.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
800
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
33.60
Memory type
-
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
1 GB
Memory bus width
-
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
134.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12_1
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A