Radeon HD 8790M and GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8790M
GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
GK107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
July 2012
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
900 MHz
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
384
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
21.60
28.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
5016 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
80.26 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126