AMD Radeon HD 6720G2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6720G2 and ATI Radeon HD 3690 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports.

AMD Radeon HD 6720G2

ATI Radeon HD 3690

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6720G2

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.8x more pipelines: 880 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm

Launch date	14 June 2011 vs 30 March 2008
Pipelines	880 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6720G2	ATI Radeon HD 3690
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	TeraScale
Launch date	14 June 2011	30 March 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Code name		RV670
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	880	320
Core clock speed		670 MHz
Floating-point performance		428.8 gflops
Texture fill rate		10.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		666 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	medium sized
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		26.56 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1660 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video