AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon E8950

AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 1% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 725 MHz
7.4x more texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
5.9x better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 7 January 2013
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 480
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	66.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1369.722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	65.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	326.391
PassMark - G3D Mark		1009
PassMark - G2D Mark		552
Geekbench - OpenCL		8800

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Terascale 2
Code name	Amethyst	Thames
Launch date	29 September 2015	7 January 2013
Place in performance rating	732	386
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	480
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0