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    Radeon HD 8790M vs GeForce GTX 950M

    Radeon HD 8790M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Apr 2013
    Radeon HD 8790M
    GeForce GTX 950M
    Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 950M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      207%

    Relative performance

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 107% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 950M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M

    The GeForce GTX 950M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    Radeon HD 8790MGeForce GTX 950M
    GPU NameMars (Mars XTX)vsGM107 (N16P-GT)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size77 mm²vs148 mm²
    Transistors1,040 millionvs1,870 million
    Shaders384vs640
    Compute Units6vs5
    Core clock850 MHzvs993 MHz
    ROPs8vs16
    TMUs24vs40

    Memory Configuration

    Radeon HD 8790MGeForce GTX 950M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective    		vs900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    Radeon HD 8790MGeForce GTX 950M
    TDP0 wattsvs75 watts
    Release Date1 Apr 2013vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      7.20 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      15.89 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      21.60 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      39.70 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      64.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      28.80 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      691.20 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      1271.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      2130
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      4410

    Points (higher is better)

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