Radeon HD 6790 vs Radeon R6 Carrizo

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Radeon HD 6790 and Radeon R6 Carrizo. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Radeon HD 6790 and Radeon R6 Carrizo. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Radeon R6 Carrizo is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon R6 Carrizo is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon R6 Carrizo here:

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 6790 Radeon R6 Carrizo
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 12-35 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6790 has 1150% more power consumption, than Radeon R6 Carrizo.
  • Radeon HD 6790 is used in Desktops, and Radeon R6 Carrizo - in Laptops.
  • Radeon HD 6790 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R6 Carrizo - with GCN 1.2/2.0.
  • Radeon HD 6790 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R6 Carrizo - by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 0−1
ultra / 1080p 4−5 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 18−20 10−12
medium / 1080p 9−10 2−3
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6790 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 133% more, than Radeon R6 Carrizo.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 6790 Radeon R6 Carrizo
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.2/2.0
Code name Barts Carrizo
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 4 April 2011 4 June 2015
Pipelines 800 384
Core clock speed 840 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 1,700 million 2410 Million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 33.60
Floating-point performance 1,344.0 gflops
Length 198 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth 134.4 GB/s
Shared memory +
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model 5.0
OpenGL 4.4
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan N/A
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 122 Mh/s
Laptop size medium sized
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