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AMD · TeraScale 2 · 2011

Radeon HD 6790 (Barts LE)

Memory1 GB54 of 183 in Radeon HD
Power150 W33 of 157 by higher draw in Radeon HD
Shaders80039 of 179 in Radeon HD
Launch price$14952 of 75 in Radeon HD

Silicon, made visible

Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.

255 mm² die · 800 shadersDie area drawn to scale against the catalog maximum of 1,540 square millimeters. Each dot = 8 shaders.255 mm² die · 800 shadersEach dot = 8 shadersDashed frame = largest catalog die (1,540 mm²)

Specifications

Memory

Capacity
1 GB
Type
GDDR5
Bus width
256 bit
Memory clock
1,050 MHz
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s

Compute

Shaders
800
TMUs
40
ROPs
16
FP32
1,344 GFLOPS
Pixel fill rate
13.4 GP/s
Texture fill rate
33.6 GT/s

Board

TDP
150 W
Bus interface
PCIe 2.1 ×16
Form factor
desktop
Launch MSRP
149 USD

Physical

Architecture
TeraScale 2
Process
40 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
Die size
255 mm²
Series
Radeon HD
Launch date
April 4, 2011

Not recorded by the source: generation, codename, sm count and base clock, or 3 further fields.

Catalog context

Within its series, the Radeon HD 6790 (Barts LE) ranks 37th of 121 for FP32 throughput and 54th of 183 for memory capacity. Its 150 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.

Source: Wikipedia, revision 1364362273 · catalog loaded 2026-08-16