AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6790 and ATI Radeon HD 5850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6790

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• Around 16% higher core clock speed: 840 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 1% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 151 Watt
• Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

• Around 55% higher texture fill rate: 52.2 GTexel / s vs 33.6 GTexel / s
• Around 80% higher pipelines: 1440 vs 800
• Around 55% better floating-point performance: 2,088.0 gflops vs 1,344.0 gflops
• Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1966 vs 1552
• Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 411 vs 367
• Around 34% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 16.467 vs 12.318
• Around 48% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1109.612 vs 750.421
• Around 25% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.541 vs 1.234
• Around 46% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 42.08 vs 28.768
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3806 vs 3127
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 3534
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3806 vs 3127
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 3534

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6790
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1552 1966
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	367 411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12.318 16.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	750.421 1109.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.234 1.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	28.768 42.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3127 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3534 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3350 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3127 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3534 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3350 3358

Compare specifications (specs)