NVIDIA GeForce 810A vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 810A and AMD Radeon HD 6790 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 810A

AMD Radeon HD 6790

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
10x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	22 July 2014 vs 4 April 2011
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6790

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 840 MHz vs 775 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 33.6 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
4.2x more pipelines: 800 vs 192
4.5x better floating-point performance: 1,344.0 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
2.3x more memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 1800 MHz
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1589 vs 655
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 366 vs 277

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	840 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.6 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,344.0 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1589 vs 655
PassMark - G2D Mark	366 vs 277

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 810A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6790

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

655

1589

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

277

366

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 810A	AMD Radeon HD 6790
PassMark - G3D Mark	655	1589
PassMark - G2D Mark	277	366
Geekbench - OpenCL	1828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		12.318
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		750.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.234
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.768
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		121.423
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 810A	AMD Radeon HD 6790
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK208	Barts
Launch date	22 July 2014	4 April 2011
Place in performance rating	864	866
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$149
Price now		$64.99
Value for money (0-100)		39.40
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	840 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops	1,344.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	192	800
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	33.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count		1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5