AMD Radeon HD 6790
VLIW5 (Barts LE)
Architecture
Midrange
Product Tier
800
Shader Cores
16
ROPs
40
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
1 GB
Memory
GDDR5
Memory Type
134.4 GB/s
Bandwidth
150 W
TDP
| GPU Snapshot | |||
| Release date: | Apr 5, 2011 | Price at Launch: | $149 |
| Type: | Desktop | Architecture: | VLIW5 (Barts LE) |
| Generation: | Radeon HD 6000 series | Product Tier: | Midrange |
| VRAM Capacity: | 1 GB | Total Board Power: | 150 W |
| Core Configuration | |||
| Shader Cores: | 800 | TMUs: | 40 |
| ROPs: | 16 | L2 Cache: | 512 KB |
| Memory | |||
| VRAM Capacity: | 1 GB | Memory Type: | GDDR5 |
| Memory Speed: | 4.2 Gbps | Memory Bus: | 256-bit |
| Bandwidth: | 134.4 GB/s | ||
| Graphics Processing | |||
| Base Clock: | 0.84 GHz | FP32 Throughput: | 1.34 TFLOPs |
| Ray Tracing: | No | Process Size: | 40nm |
| Process Name: | TSMC 40nm | Die Size: | 255 mm² |
| Power & Connectivity | |||
| Total Board Power: | 150 W | Power Connectors: | 2x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface: | PCIe 2.0 x16 | HDMI Support: | HDMI 1.3a |
| DisplayPort Support: | DP 1.1 | DSC: | No |
| Max Displays: | 5 | ||
| Media & Software Support | |||
| DirectX Support: | 11.2 | Shader Model: | 5.0 |
| OpenGL Version: | 4.4 | ||
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