AMD Radeon Pro 570X vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 570X and AMD Radeon HD 8790M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 Pro 570X

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 570X

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 1105 MHz vs 850 MHz
4.7x more pipelines: 1792 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
5.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27531 vs 4920

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 March 2019 vs 1 April 2013
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed	1105 MHz vs 850 MHz
Pipelines	1792 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	27531 vs 4920

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8790M

2.4x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1700 MHz (6800 MHz effective)

Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1700 MHz (6800 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 570X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

27531

4920

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 570X	AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Geekbench - OpenCL	27531	4920
PassMark - G3D Mark		1306
PassMark - G2D Mark		751
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 Pro 570X	AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Polaris 20	Mars
Launch date	18 March 2019	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	835	837
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1105 MHz	850 MHz
Compute units	28	6
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	247.5 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	3.960 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.960 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1792	384
Pixel fill rate	35.36 GPixel/s
Stream Processors	123.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt
Transistor count	5700 million	1,040 million
Floating-point performance		691.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		21.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	11
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	217.6 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz (6800 MHz effective)	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)