Radeon HD 8790M vs Radeon R7 M260

Radeon HD 8790M Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 1 Apr 2013

Radeon R7 M260 Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 11 Jun 2014

Summary

Synthetic performance index

Radeon HD 8790M
113%
Radeon R7 M260
100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8790M

Around 13% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 M260

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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 8790M		Radeon R7 M260
GPU Name	Mars (Mars XTX)	vs	Topaz (Topaz XT)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	77 mmÂ²	vs	77 mmÂ²
Transistors	1,040 million	vs	unknown
Shaders	384	vs	384
Compute Units	6	vs	6
Core clock	850 MHz	vs	940 MHz
ROPs	8	vs	8
TMUs	24	vs	24

Memory Configuration

	Radeon HD 8790M		Radeon R7 M260
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	128 bit	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective	vs	900 MHz 3600 MHz effective
Memory Size	2048 Mb	vs	1024 Mb

Additional details

	Radeon HD 8790M		Radeon R7 M260
TDP	0 watts	vs	0 watts
Release Date	1 Apr 2013	vs	11 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

Radeon HD 8790M
7.20 GP/s
Radeon R7 M260
7.52 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

Radeon HD 8790M
21.60 GT/s
Radeon R7 M260
22.56 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

Radeon HD 8790M
64.00 GB/s
Radeon R7 M260
57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

Radeon HD 8790M
691.20 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 M260
721.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

Radeon HD 8790M
2130
Radeon R7 M260
1880

Points (higher is better)

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