
Radeon HD 8590M and Mobility Radeon 9800 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8590M
Mobility Radeon 9800
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
Sun
M18
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
July 2004
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
AGP 8x
Boost clock speed
825 MHz
350 MHz
Core clock speed
620 MHz
4 MHz
Floating-point performance
528.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
160 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
12
Texture fill rate
16.50
2.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2 / DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
36 GB/s
19.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
9.0b (9_2)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A