• Gaming Rankings
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for League of Legends
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Fortnite
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Hearthstone
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Overwatch
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG)
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for World of Tanks
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Dota 2
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for GTA V
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Rocket League
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for FIFA 19
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Far Cry 5
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for For Honor
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Rise of the Tomb Raider
    • Top 100 Best Laptops for Shadow of the Tomb Raider
  • Display Profiles
  • Laptop Rankings
    • Top Laptop CPU Ranking
    • Top Laptop Graphics Ranking
    • Top 100 Best Gaming Laptop Deals (Price/Performance)
    • Top 100 Most Powerful Gaming Laptops
  • M.2 SSDs
    • Laptop M.2 Compatibility List
    • Top M.2 SSDs Performance Rankings

Choose country...

  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • India
  • Italia
  • Deutschland
  • France
  • Canada
  • España
  • Australia
  • България
  • 中国
USA ($)

LaptopMedia.com

  • Home
  • Laptops Specs
  • Laptop Series
  • Reviews
  • Comparisons
  • All Laptops
  • Acer
  • ASUS
  • Apple
  • Alienware
  • AORUS
  • Dell
  • Gigabyte
  • HP
  • Huawei
  • Lenovo
  • LG
  • Microsoft
  • MSI
  • Razer
  • Samsung
  • Toshiba

    AMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5) - benchmark tests, specifications and information

    LaptopMedia.comLaptop GPU SpecsAMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5)

    From: Simeon Nikolov 4 December 2014 / 14:35 | 0

    PLEASE WHITELIST US. If it weren’t for the ads, LaptopMedia wouldn’t be running.
    Our articles are free to read but the equipment in our Labs isn’t. We want to be as objective and unbiased as possible, and you can help us keep our jobs by whitelisting our media in your adblocker.

    AMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5)

    AMD Radeon HD 8790M, codenamed “Mars XTX”, is a mid-range graphics chip, announced in early Q2 of 2012. It is part of the GCN (Graphics Core Next) generation and is constructed through a 28nm process. Its consists of 368 Radeon cores, 24 texture cores and 8 raster cores.

    All of them operate at 850MHz, but the Turbo clock functionality can increase that by a potential 6%, up to 900MHz , based on the laptop’s cooling capacity. The new Enduro technology is available as well. It allows the HD 8790M to switch between integrated and discrete graphics so as to increase battery life.

    The chip also has a 128bit bus and is only available with GDDR5 memory. AMD Radeon HD 8790M supports  DirectX 11.1, Pixel Shader 5.0, OpenCL 1.2, Zero Core, and the Enduro technology. Memory bandwidth goes up to 144GB/sec.

    You can find all available laptops with Radeon HD 8790M here: Buy from Amazon.com

     

    Ranking 116
    Manufacturing Process 28 nm
    Architecture GCN
    Base frequency 850 MHz
    Memory Type GDDR5
    Memory Frequency 4000 MHz
    Memory bandwith 64 GB/sec
    Released Q2 2012
    Power consumption 35 W
    Cores 368
    Maximum frequency 900 MHz
    Memory Capacity 2 GB
    Memory bus 128-bit
    Drivers support.amd.com
    Supported technologies DirectX 11.1, Pixel Shader 5.0, OpenCL 1.2, Zero Core, Enduro Technology.

    Laptops with AMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5)

    Dell Latitude E6540
    • Intel Core i7-4800MQ
    • AMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5)
    • 1000GB HDD
    • 16GB RAM
    Not available
    More Info Buy from Amazon

    AMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5) - benchmark tests

    3DMark Fire Strike (G)
    1722
    Unigine Heaven 3.0
    494
    Unigine Heaven 4.0
    439
    Unigine Superposition
    -

    AMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5) vs competitors:

    # GPU Memory bus Performance
    score
    In laptops starting at...
    114. AMD Radeon R7 M465 (2GB GDDR5) 128-bit 0.4/10 $975.39
    115. NVIDIA GeForce 940M (2GB DDR3) 64-bit 0.4/10 $580.00
    116. AMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5) 128-bit 0.4/10 Check price
    117. NVIDIA GeForce 940MX (2GB DDR3) 64-bit 0.4/10 $592.58
    118. Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 - 0.4/10 $1789.00
    119. NVIDIA GeForce 940M (4GB DDR3) 64-bit 0.4/10 Check price
    See all Top Laptop GPU Rankings

    We’ve tested AMD Radeon HD 8790M (2GB GDDR5) on…

    # Laptop 3DMark Fire Strike (G) Unigine Heaven 3.0 Unigine Heaven 4.0 Unigine Superposition Price
    1. Dell Latitude E6540 1722.00 494.00 439.00 0.00 N/A

     

    Author: Simeon NikolovEditor-in-Chief at Laptopmedia.com. One of his main duties is to analyze and test all of the new and exciting mobile devices.

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published.

    Top 100 Laptops



    Top Laptop Ratings

    • Top Laptop CPU Ranking
    • Top Laptop Graphics Ranking
    • Laptop M.2 SSD Compatibility List
    • Top M.2 SSDs Performance Rankings
    • Top Laptop PWM Ranking
    • LaptopMedia Profiles Supported Laptops List
    • Top Laptopsby Battery Life

    Reviews View more

    ASUS ZenBook 14 UX433 review – premium performance in a record small form factor 20 February 2019
    MSI GF63 8RD review – looks better than it works 17 February 2019
    Lenovo IdeaPad 330s (15″) review – IPS display laptop at an absurdly low price 14 February 2019
    ASUS ZenBook Pro 14 UX480 review – the hottest 14-incher on the market 11 February 2019
    Lenovo Yoga 730 (15″) review – born to make the artists happy 8 February 2019

    Highlights View more

    List of all GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 Max-Q laptops – reviews, specs, prices [Updated: February 2019] 18 February 2019
    Quick review of XPG SX6000 Pro – PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4 SSD 9 January 2019
    [December 2018] Top 3 Best Gaming Laptop Deals (Price/Performance) 17 December 2018
    [Black Friday 2018] Best GTX 1080 SLI and GTX 1070 SLI laptop deals 22 November 2018
    [Black Friday 2018] Best GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Max-Q laptop deals 21 November 2018

    Follow us

    2007 - 2019 Some rights reserved - LaptopMedia.com