Radeon RX 560 Mobile and Radeon HD 8790M - video card comparison
Radeon RX 560 Mobile
Radeon HD 8790M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 11
Mars XTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2017
November 2012
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1275 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1175 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,462 gflops
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
58.97
21.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-