Radeon HD 8790M and GF117 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8790M vs GF117
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
GF117
571
Radeon HD 8790M
GF117
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
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Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
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Core clock speed
850 MHz
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Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
96
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
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Texture fill rate
21.60
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
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2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
PureVideo HD
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VP5