AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8790M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 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.

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
4.8x more pipelines: 384 vs 80
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
13.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1306 vs 94
3.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 751 vs 206

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines	384 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1306 vs 94
PassMark - G2D Mark	751 vs 206

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8790M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1306

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

751

206

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8790M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	1306	94
PassMark - G2D Mark	751	206
Geekbench - OpenCL	4752
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.759
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	465.631
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.576
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.839
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	80.418
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2181
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2656
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2014
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2181
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2656
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2014
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1607

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8790M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	RV6xx
Code name	Mars	M82-XT + RS780M
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 April 2013	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	846	849
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	850 MHz
Compute units	6
Core clock speed	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	384	80
Texture fill rate	21.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	362 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0