Radeon HD 8790M and Radeon 9600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8790M vs Radeon 9600
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
Radeon 9600
36
Radeon HD 8790M
Radeon 9600
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
RV350
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
October 2003
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
324 MHz
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
-
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
21.60
1.296
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
378 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
6.048 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_1)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A