GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8790M
CORE STATE
Mars
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
900 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce 940MX
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
861 MHz
TDP
23 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8790M
940MX
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
512
+33.3%
Shaders
384
512
+33.3%
TMUs
24
32
+33.3%
ROPs
8
8
0.0%
Compute Units
6
—
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
795 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
861 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
2,048
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
64.00 GB/s
40.10 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
6.888 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
21.60 GTexel/s
27.55 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
691.2 GFLOPS
881.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
43.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
27.55 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
—
23 W
TDP (W)
—
23
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
Mars
GM107
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
GeForce 900M
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
950 million
1,870 million
Die Size
77 mm²
148 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
12.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
5.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
MXM Module
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
GeForce 800M
Successor
Gem System
GeForce 10 Mobile