Quadro 6000 vs Radeon HD 6790

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro 6000 and Radeon HD 6790, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro 6000 stacks up against Radeon HD 6790, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro 6000 Radeon HD 6790
Power consumption (TDP) 204 Watt 150 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro 6000 has 36% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 6790.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro 6000 has 5 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6790.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 6000 is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon HD 6790 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6790 is 266 MHz higher, than Quadro 6000.
  • Quadro 6000 and Radeon HD 6790 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Quadro 6000 is 50 mm longer, than Radeon HD 6790.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 6000 is 1938 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6790.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 14−16 7−8
ultra / 1080p 8−9 4−5
QHD / 1440p 3−4 0−1
low / 720p 27−30 18−20
medium / 1080p 16−18 9−10
The average gaming FPS of Quadro 6000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 70% more, than Radeon HD 6790.

Full Specs

  Quadro 6000 Radeon HD 6790
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF100 Barts
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 10 December 2010 4 April 2011
Pipelines 448 800
Core clock speed 574 MHz 840 MHz
Transistor count 3,100 million 1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 32.14 33.60
Floating-point performance 1,027.7 gflops 1,344.0 gflops
Length 248 mm 198 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2988 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth 143.4 GB/s 134.4 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 91 Mh/s 122 Mh/s
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