Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 6790 vs Radeon HD 6670
AMD
Radeon HD 6790
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 4 Apr 2011
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VS
AMD
Radeon HD 6670
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 19 Apr 2011
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon HD 6790157%
- Radeon HD 6670100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6790
- Around 57% higher average synthetic performance.
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6670
- 84 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6790 .
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon HD 6790
The Radeon HD 6790 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 6790 | Radeon HD 6670 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Barts (Barts LE) | Turks (Turks XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 255 mm² | 118 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,700 million | 716 million |
| Shaders | 800 | 480 |
| Compute Units | 10 | 6 |
| Core clock | 840 MHz | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 8 |
| TMUs | 40 | 24 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 6790 | Radeon HD 6670 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6790 | Radeon HD 6670 |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | 66 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Apr 2011 | 19 Apr 2011 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 679013.40 GP/s
- Radeon HD 66706.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 679033.60 GT/s
- Radeon HD 667019.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 6790134.00 GB/s
- Radeon HD 667064.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 67901344.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 6670768.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon HD 67903090
- Radeon HD 66701960
Points (higher is better)