NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580M +37%

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

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Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 500M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

8

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.920 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

39.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

79.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Mars

N12E-GTX2-A1

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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