Radeon HD 8790M and GeForce 9800 GTX+ - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8790M vs GeForce 9800 GTX+
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
GeForce 9800 GTX+
521
Radeon HD 8790M
GeForce 9800 GTX+
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
G92B
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
January 2009
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
738 MHz
CUDA cores
-
128
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
470.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
128
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
141 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
21.60
47.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
70.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A