Radeon R5 M465 vs HD 8790M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking730not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameMarsMeso
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2013 (11 years ago)2016 (8 years 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 cores384384
Core clock speed850 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1015 MHz
Number of transistors950 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknownno data
Texture fill rate21.6024.36
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPSno data
ROPs88
TMUs2424

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s16 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB

R5 M465 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8790M and Radeon R5 M465. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8790M is a notebook card while Radeon R5 M465 is a desktop one.


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