NVIDIA NVS 5200M vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 5200M 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 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 5200M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M +187%

0.691 TFLOPS

NVS 5200M

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Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2013

NVS Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

96

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Mars

N13M-NS1

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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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