Radeon HD 8790M and Radeon 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8790M vs Radeon 520
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
Radeon 520
811
Radeon HD 8790M
Radeon 520
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
March 2017
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
320
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
21.60
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
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DirectX
12 (11_1)
12.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
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