The HD 6790 is set to beat the GTX550 Ti, which is quite a failure by nVidia, performing even worse than the previous generation's GTX460. It is based on AMD's 40 nm "Barts" GPU which is the very same graphics processor used in the Radeon HD 6850 and HD 6870. Next to that this product comes with a full 256-bit wide memory bus giving it very nice memory bandwidth and really, aside from slicing some shader processor clusters and ROPs away, this is a R6800 series card.
Armed with plenty of power for a products in the 125 EUR (RM544) range this product could be just what the doctor ordered for gamers on a budget, have a quick peek at the actual reference sample and then let's head on over into the review.
SOURCE Guru3d
SPECIFICATIONS
AMD Radeon HD 6790
Process | 40nm |
Transistors | 1.7B |
Engine Clock | Up to 840 Mhz |
Stream Processors | 800 |
Compute Performance | Up to 1.34 TFLOPs |
Texture Units | 40 |
Texture Fillrate | 33.6 GTexel/s |
ROPs | 16 |
Pixel Fillrate | 13.4 GPixel/s |
Z/Stencil | 53.8 GSample/s |
Memory Type | GDDR5 |
Memory Clock | Up to 1050 MHz |
Memory Bus Width | 256 bit |
Memory Data Rate | Up to 4.2 Gbps |
Memory Bandwidth | Up to 134.4 GB/s |
Load Board Power | 150W |
Idle Board Power | 19W |
SOURCE Guru3d
