AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8790M and AMD Radeon HD 6790 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8790M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 1% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 840 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 751 vs 374
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 12.759 vs 12.318
• Around 28% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.576 vs 1.234

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6790

• Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 33.6 GTexel / s vs 21.6 GTexel / s
• 2.1x more pipelines: 800 vs 384
• Around 94% better floating-point performance: 1,344.0 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
• Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 4000 MHz
• Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1616 vs 1306
• Around 61% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 748.068 vs 465.631
• Around 51% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 121.423 vs 80.418
• Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3127 vs 2181
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3534 vs 2656
• Around 66% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3350 vs 2014
• Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3127 vs 2181
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3534 vs 2656
• Around 66% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3350 vs 2014

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8790M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6790

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1306 1616
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	751 374
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12.759 12.318
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	465.631 748.068
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.576 1.234
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	28.839 28.768
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	80.418 121.423
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2181 3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2656 3534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2014 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2181 3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2656 3534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2014 3350

Compare specifications (specs)