AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Mars GM108
GPU variant Mars XTX N16S-GMR
Architecture GCN 1.0 Maxwell
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 950 million unknown
Die size 77 mm² unknown

Mobile graphics

Release date Apr 1st, 2013 Mar 1st, 2016
Generation Solar System (HD 8700M) GeForce 900M
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x8
Predecessor London GeForce 800M
Successor Crystal System GeForce 10 Mobile

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz 952 MHz
Boost clock 900 MHz 1020 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 64.00 GB/s 14.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 384 384
TMUs 24 24
ROPs 8 8
Compute units 6
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 256 KB 1024 KB
SMM count 3

Performance

Pixel rate 7.200 GPixel/s 8.160 GPixel/s
Texture rate 21.60 GTexel/s 24.48 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 691.2 GFLOPS 783.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 43.20 GFLOPS (1:16) 24.48 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module MXM Module
TDP unknown 17 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Power connectors None None
Board number C615

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 5.1 5.1
CUDA 5.0

Other Features

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