AMD

HD 6790

HD 6790
BENCHMARKS (4,043)
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Effective Speed -1,469%Effective 3D Speed -1,469%Average Score -1,792%Lighting -1,593%, Reflection -1,488%, MRender -2,228%, Gravity -1,860%Overclocked Score -1,857%Lighting -1,621%, Reflection -1,769%, MRender -2,212%, Gravity -1,824%Value & Sentiment User Rating -87%, Market Share -∞%Nice To Haves -1,361%Parallax -1,953%, Splatting -1,301%, Parallax -1,877%, Splatting -1,318%, Age -354%

Average Bench: 10.7% (288^th of 714)

Based on 4,043 user benchmarks. Device: 1002 673E Model: AMD Radeon HD 6700

Poor: 10%Average: 10.7% Great: 12%

Popular builds with this GPU

Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 6790 averaged 89.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 14.3fps

Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 10.4fps

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Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 6790 is just 1.47%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD HD 6790 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 14.8fps

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 12.9fps

Average Bench

(Based on 4,043 samples)

Rank 28810.7%

Min	Avg	Max
13.4	Lighting 14.3	15.5
14	Reflection 14.8	16.2
12.1	Parallax 12.9	14
11.7% 14 fps

Min	Avg	Max
11	MRender 11.7	12.6
10.1	Gravity 10.5	11.4
10.1	Splatting 10.4	11.2
8.83% 10.9 fps

User Benchmarks

Bench

3D DX9

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3D DX11

The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

USA-User, 2 months ago.HD 6790

PwrHis(1787 2010) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008

11.3% Very poor

Lighting 15

Reflection 15.6

Parallax 13.7

12% 14.8 fps

MRender 12.3

Gravity 11.2

Splatting 11.1

9% 11.5 fps

GRC-User, 2 months ago.HD 6790

Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2401.0

10.6% Very poor

Lighting 14.1

Reflection 14.5

Parallax 12.9

12% 13.8 fps

MRender 11.4

Gravity 10.6

Splatting 10.4

9% 10.8 fps

CAN-User, 1 month ago.HD 6790

XFX(1682 3170) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008

10.6% Very poor

Lighting 14.1

Reflection 14.7

Parallax 12.8

12% 13.9 fps

MRender 11.6

Gravity 10.4

Splatting 10.4

9% 10.8 fps

POL-User, 2 months ago.HD 6790

Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008

10.6% Very poor

Lighting 14.1

Reflection 14.5

Parallax 12.8

12% 13.8 fps

MRender 11.5

Gravity 10.4

Splatting 10.4

9% 10.8 fps

ITA-User, 25 days ago.HD 6790

Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0

10.6% Very poor

Lighting 14.1

Reflection 14.6

Parallax 13

12% 13.9 fps

MRender 11.5

Gravity 10.4

Splatting 10.4

9% 10.8 fps

RUS-User, 1 month ago.HD 6790

PwrHis(1787 2310) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004

10.5% Very poor

Lighting 14

Reflection 14.5

Parallax 12.8

11% 13.8 fps

MRender 11.6

Gravity 10.6

Splatting 10.4

9% 10.9 fps

AUS-User, 1 month ago.HD 6790

Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004

10.5% Very poor

Lighting 14

Reflection 14.4

Parallax 12.8

11% 13.7 fps

MRender 11.4

Gravity 10.4

Splatting 10.4

9% 10.7 fps

TUR-User, 2 months ago.HD 6790

PwrHis(1787 2310) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008

10.5% Very poor

Lighting 13.9

Reflection 14.3

Parallax 12.8

11% 13.7 fps

MRender 11.4

Gravity 10.4

Splatting 10.4

9% 10.7 fps

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Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Sapphire(174B 174B)	42%	11% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2310)	18%	11% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3170)	12%	11% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3172)	11%	11% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2010)	4%	11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2451)	3%	11% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 200F)	3%	11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2444)	2%	11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2443)	2%	12% ± 0%
Device(0000 0000)	1%	11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 03E8)	0%	10% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3171)	0%	11% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 3000)	0%	11% ± 0%
AMD(1002 00D0)	0%	10% ± 0%
AMD(1002 0B00)	0%	11% ± 0%
Device(1545 2310)	0%	11% ± 0%

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Gaming 16%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 14%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H270M-D3H-CF

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Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	115x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	68x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	34x

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HD 6790AMDBench 11%, 4,043 samples	1x

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A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x

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Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 75%, 46,470 samples	11x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	10x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	10x

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Total price: $195

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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HD 6790

Average Bench: 10.7% (288^th of 714)

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HD 6790

Average Bench: 10.7% (288th of 714)

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Average Bench: 10.7% (288^th of 714)