AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8790M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M 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 Clock has increased by 19% (900MHz vs 758MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M +194%

2.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1344

24

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

GK104

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon R7 M445

2

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

3

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max Q

4

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M

5

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

6

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 545v

7

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD FirePro W4130M

8

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon Pro 570

9

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M

10

AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD FirePro W4150M

Related News

1

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

2

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

3

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

4

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

5

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

6

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

7

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

8

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

9

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

10

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales