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    Radeon HD 8790M vs Radeon R5 M230

    Radeon HD 8790M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Apr 2013
    Radeon HD 8790M
    Radeon R5 M230
    Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Jan 2014
    Radeon R5 M230

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      120%
    • Radeon R5 M230
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8790M

    Around 20% higher average synthetic performance.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R5 M230

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    Radeon HD 8790M

    HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8790M

    The Radeon HD 8790M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    Radeon HD 8790MRadeon R5 M230
    GPU NameMars (Mars XTX)vsJet (Jet PRO)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size77 mm²vs77 mm²
    Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
    Shaders384vs320
    Compute Units6vs5
    Core clock850 MHzvs780 MHz
    ROPs8vs8
    TMUs24vs20

    Memory Configuration

    Radeon HD 8790MRadeon R5 M230
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
    Memory Speed1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective    		vs1000 MHz
    2000 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    Radeon HD 8790MRadeon R5 M230
    TDP0 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date1 Apr 2013vs7 Jan 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      7.20 GP/s
    • Radeon R5 M230
      6.84 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      21.60 GT/s
    • Radeon R5 M230
      17.10 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      64.00 GB/s
    • Radeon R5 M230
      16.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      691.20 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R5 M230
      547.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      2130
    • Radeon R5 M230
      1770

    Points (higher is better)

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