AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 8790M NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GS 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 5 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8790M +306%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GS

0.17 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

VS

GeForce 9800M GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

64

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.96 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

169.6 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

G94

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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