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 GTX 460 SE
CORE STATE
GF104
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8790M
GTX 460 SE
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
288
-25.0%
Shaders
384
288
-25.0%
TMUs
24
48
+100.0%
ROPs
8
32
+300.0%
Compute Units
6
—
SM Count
—
6
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
—
Boost Clock
900 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
650 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
850 MHz
3.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
1024 MB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
1,024
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
64.00 GB/s
108.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
7.800 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
21.60 GTexel/s
31.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
691.2 GFLOPS
748.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
43.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
62.40 GFLOPS (1:12)
Power
TDP
—
150 W
TDP (W)
—
150
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Fermi
GPU Name
Mars
GF104
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
GeForce 400
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
950 million
1,950 million
Die Size
77 mm²
332 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
5.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
—
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.1
CUDA
—
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
210 mm
8.3 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
160 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
GeForce 200
Successor
Gem System
GeForce 500