AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

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AMD Radeon HD 8790M NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

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

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8790M +763%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 8700M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

VS

GeForce 8700M GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jun 2007

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

G84

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

GPU Variant

NB8E-SE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

29W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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