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 980M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1127 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8790M
GTX 980M
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
1,536
+300.0%
Shaders
384
1,536
+300.0%
TMUs
24
96
+300.0%
ROPs
8
64
+700.0%
Compute Units
6
—
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1127 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
64.00 GB/s
160.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
72.13 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
21.60 GTexel/s
108.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
691.2 GFLOPS
3.462 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
43.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
108.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Mars
GM204
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
GeForce 900M
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
950 million
5,200 million
Die Size
77 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
13.1M / 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
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
MXM Module
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
GeForce 800M
Successor
Gem System
GeForce 10 Mobile