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    Radeon HD 8790M vs Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

    Radeon HD 8790M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Apr 2013
    Radeon HD 8790M
    Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 6 Dec 2015
    Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      113%
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Rev. 2

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 M260 Rev. 2
    GPU NameMars (Mars XTX)vsOpal (Opal PRO)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size77 mm²vs77 mm²
    Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
    Shaders384vs384
    Compute Units6vs6
    Core clock850 MHzvs620 MHz
    ROPs8vs8
    TMUs24vs24

    Memory Configuration

    Radeon HD 8790MRadeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective    		vs1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

    Additional details

    Radeon HD 8790MRadeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    TDP0 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date1 Apr 2013vs6 Dec 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      7.20 GP/s
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      5.72 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      21.60 GT/s
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      17.16 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      64.00 GB/s
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      64.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      691.20 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      549.10 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • Radeon HD 8790M
      2130
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      1880

    Points (higher is better)

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