Radeon HD 8790M and Radeon RX 560X Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8790M
Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
Polaris 11
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
January 2017
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1275 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1172 MHz
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
2,611 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
60-80 Watt
Texture fill rate
21.60
81.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
92.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
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