AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M 2 GB, 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

2281 points

4858% significantly better overall score

46 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

600% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7019 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

612% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7602 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

865% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4741 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

676% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6895 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

495% significantly higher pixel rate

7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

793% significantly higher texture rate

21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

499% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 586

546th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

Radeon RX 580 vs Radeon HD 8790M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8790M in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 580 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 580 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 580 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 580 is faster than the Radeon HD 8790M.