Radeon HD 8790M and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8790M vs GeForce RTX 3060

Radeon HD 8790M

1344

GeForce RTX 3060

17598

Radeon HD 8790M

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Mars XTX

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

November 2012

January 2021

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

691.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

unknown

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

21.60

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2