Radeon R5 240 OEM vs HD 6790

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking678not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.76no data
Power efficiency2.02no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameBartsOland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 April 2011 (13 years ago)1 November 2013 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$149 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800384
Core clock speed840 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data780 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate33.6018.72
Floating-point processing power1.344 TFLOPS0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4024

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length198 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1050 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/s14.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 April 2011 1 November 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 50 Watt

R5 240 OEM has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6790 and Radeon R5 240 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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