AMD Radeon HD 6790
VS
AMD Tonga
AMD Radeon HD 6790
VS
AMD Tonga

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6790 and AMD Tonga. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

526
Place in performance rating
not rated
30.22
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Terascale 2
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Barts
Code name
Tonga
Desktop
Type
Desktop
4 April 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
no data
$149
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$169 (1.1x MSRP)
Price now
$27
1.27
Value for money
no data
Barts
GPU code name
Tonga
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 6790 and AMD Tonga based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

800
Pipelines
2048
840 MHz
Core clock speed
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1,700 million
Transistor count
5,000 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
33.60
Texture fill rate
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1,344.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
800
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1,700 million
Number of transistors
5,000 million
150 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 6790 and AMD Tonga.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
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198 mm
Length
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2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 6790 and AMD Tonga can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
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1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
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256 Bit
Memory bus width
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1050 MHz
Memory clock speed
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134.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6790 and AMD Tonga, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
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HDMI
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 6790 and AMD Tonga. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 6790 and AMD Tonga graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 6790 or AMD Tonga good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6790
AMD Tonga
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6790
AMD Tonga
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6790
AMD Tonga
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6790
AMD Tonga
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6790
AMD Tonga
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6790

7.69% faster in synthetic tests

Advantages of AMD Tonga

Cheaper ($27 vs $169 (1.1x MSRP))

More pipelines (2048 vs 800)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Radeon HD 6790 or AMD Tonga?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6790 .

AMD Radeon HD 6790 versus AMD Tonga performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 6790
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