Radeon 890M vs GeForce 9100M G mGPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated253
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameC77Strix Point
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)15 July 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores161024
Core clock speed450 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistors210 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.800185.6
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs464
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory++

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2008 15 July 2024
Chip lithography 80 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 15 Watt

9100M G mGPU has 25% lower power consumption.

Radeon 890M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 1900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9100M G mGPU AMD and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.


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