Radeon HD 8590M and G96C - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8590M

G96C

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Sun

G96C

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

November 2012

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

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Boost clock speed

825 MHz

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Core clock speed

620 MHz

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Floating-point performance

528.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

690 million

314 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

32

Texture fill rate

16.50

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

36 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP3