AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8790M 2 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 3, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

46 points

111 points

141% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

0 FPS

2 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

1 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7019 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4396 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7602 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4915 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4741 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3968 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6895 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

183% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

850 MHz

1100 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.2 Gigapixels/s

63% significantly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

13.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

100% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

546th of 586

493rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon HD 8790M vs Radeon Vega 3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon Vega 3 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8790M in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon HD 8790M has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 3 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon Vega 3 is better than the Radeon HD 8790M.