AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

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AMD Radeon HD 8790M AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (900MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8790M +28%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

0.538 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

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Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

Solar System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

6

384

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Mars

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

GPU Variant

Mars LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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