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 950
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1188 MHz
TDP
90 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8790M
GTX 950
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
768
+100.0%
Shaders
384
768
+100.0%
TMUs
24
48
+100.0%
ROPs
8
32
+300.0%
Compute Units
6
—
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1024 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
1653 MHz
6.6 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
128 bit
Bandwidth
64.00 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
38.02 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
21.60 GTexel/s
57.02 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
691.2 GFLOPS
1.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
43.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
57.02 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
—
90 W
TDP (W)
—
90
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Mars
GM206
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
GeForce 900
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
950 million
2,940 million
Die Size
77 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
12.9M / 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
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
202 mm
8 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
159 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
GeForce 700
Successor
Gem System
GeForce 10