AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

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AMD Radeon HD 8790M AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1219MHz vs 900MHz)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe +80%

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

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Radeon E9173 PCIe

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2017

Solar System

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

8

384

Shading Units

512

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Lexa

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

GPU Variant

E9170

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.4

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