NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), 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 - 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 GTX 760 X2

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1006 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 26% higher boost clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 850 MHz
97.4x more texture fill rate: 2x 102.9 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 21.6 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 2x 1152 vs 384
7.1x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,470 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 2 GB
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
4.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 7.396 vs 1.576

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 November 2013 vs 1 April 2013
Core clock speed	1006 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed	1072 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 102.9 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 21.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1152 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2x 2,470 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 2 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	7.396 vs 1.576

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8790M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

7.396

1.576

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2	AMD Radeon HD 8790M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	7.396	1.576
PassMark - G3D Mark		1306
PassMark - G2D Mark		751
Geekbench - OpenCL		4804
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 - 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 GTX 760 X2	AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK104	Mars
Launch date	19 November 2013	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	859	862
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1072 MHz	850 MHz
Core clock speed	1006 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 2,470 gflops	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2x 1152	384
Texture fill rate	2x 102.9 GTexel / s billion / sec	21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	1,040 million
Compute units		6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 192.3 GB / s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0