Radeon HD 8790M and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8790M

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Mars XTX

GN20-S7

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

November 2012

December 2021

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1477 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

691.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

unknown

30-45 Watt

Texture fill rate

21.60

189.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready