NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 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 RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1245MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

5760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +2114%

15.3 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1245 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

6144

Shading Units

384

192

TMUs

24

96

ROPs

8

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

119.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

239.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

15.30 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.30 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

239.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Mars

GA104-775-A1

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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