GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

CORE STATE Mars

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 900 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 1080

CORE STATE GP104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1733 MHz

TDP 180 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

5,073

55,724

geekbench_vulkan

5,839

65,164

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,560

geekbench_metal

N/A

23,824

passmark_directx_10

N/A

93

passmark_directx_11

N/A

124

passmark_directx_12

N/A

55

passmark_directx_9

N/A

211

passmark_g2d

N/A

888

passmark_g3d

N/A

15,586

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

7,614

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 8790M

GTX 1080

Core Specs

Shading Units

384

2,560 +566.7%

Shaders

384

2,560 +566.7%

TMUs

24

160 +566.7%

ROPs

8

64 +700.0%

Compute Units

6

—

SM Count

—

20

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

1607 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1733 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective

1251 MHz 10 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5X

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

64.00 GB/s

320.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

256 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

110.9 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

691.2 GFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

43.20 GFLOPS (1:16)

277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

Power

TDP

—

180 W

TDP (W)

—

180

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Pascal

GPU Name

Mars

GP104

Generation

Solar System (HD 8700M)

GeForce 10

Process Size

28 nm

16 nm

Transistors

950 million

7,200 million

Die Size

77 mm²

314 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

22.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

6.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

London

GeForce 900

Successor

Gem System

GeForce 20

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