NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M +901%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

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Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 9M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

6.880 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

68.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Mars

NB9P-GE2

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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