NVIDIA GeForce 810A vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 810A 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. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 810A

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later

Launch date	22 July 2014 vs 1 April 2013

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 775 MHz
Around 74% higher texture fill rate: 21.6 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 384 vs 192
2.3x better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Around 99% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1306 vs 655
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 751 vs 277
2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4679 vs 1828

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate	21.6 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 192
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1306 vs 655
PassMark - G2D Mark	751 vs 277
Geekbench - OpenCL	4679 vs 1828

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 810A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8790M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

655

1306

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

277

751

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

1828

4679

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 810A	AMD Radeon HD 8790M
PassMark - G3D Mark	655	1306
PassMark - G2D Mark	277	751
Geekbench - OpenCL	1828	4679
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)

	NVIDIA GeForce 810A	AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK208	Mars
Launch date	22 July 2014	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	858	861
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	192	384
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Boost clock speed		850 MHz
Compute units		6
Transistor count		1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0