Radeon HD 8790M and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8790M vs GeForce 8600M GS
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
GeForce 8600M GS
72
Radeon HD 8790M
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
June 2007
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
16
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
21.60
3.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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