GeForce GTX 280M SLI and Radeon HD 8790M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 280M SLI
Radeon HD 8790M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N10E-GTX
Mars XTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
November 2012
Interface
-
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
900 MHz
Core clock speed
585 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1508 Million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
384
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
-
21.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
950 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
10
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131