Radeon HD 8790M and HD Graphics 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8790M vs HD Graphics 5500
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
HD Graphics 5500
598
Radeon HD 8790M
HD Graphics 5500
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Gen. 8 Broadwell (2014−2015)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
Broadwell GT2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
January 2015
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
950 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
1,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
24
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
21.60
22.80
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.80