GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 8790M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition |
| Around 256% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8790M |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
The GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 8790M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 (N14E-GTX-A2) | vs | Mars (Mars XTX) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 77 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 771 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 128 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 8790M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 8790M | |
|---|
| TDP | 122 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 8 Nov 2013 | vs | 1 Apr 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)