Curiously, AMD provided The Tech Report with an Intel-based testing rig to show off the capabilities of its upcoming mobile GPU. You can read the results of the benchmarking over here.
You know the saying: better late than never. I think that applies to the Radeon HD 8000M series. Mid-range and low-end gaming notebooks have been saddled with 40-nm GPUs based on AMD's old TeraScale architecture for almost a year. The 8000M series finally rights that wrong by bringing 28-nm, GCN goodness to lower price tiers and power envelopes. AMD hasn't broken new ground here; it's simply made a year-old architecture available to more folks.
As our benchmarks have shown, the wait has been worth it. The Radeon HD 8790M beats the pants off its predecessor, and it does so while consuming less power at idle and only marginally more under load.