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 680
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1058 MHz
TDP
195 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8790M
GTX 680
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
1,536
+300.0%
Shaders
384
1,536
+300.0%
TMUs
24
128
+433.3%
ROPs
8
32
+300.0%
Compute Units
6
—
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1006 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1058 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 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
256 bit
Bandwidth
64.00 GB/s
192.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
21.60 GTexel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
691.2 GFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
43.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
135.4 GFLOPS (1:24)
Power
TDP
—
195 W
TDP (W)
—
195
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
GPU Name
Mars
GK104
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
GeForce 600
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
950 million
3,540 million
Die Size
77 mm²
294 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
12.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.175
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
3.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
256 mm
10.1 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
GeForce 500
Successor
Gem System
GeForce 700