AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 21% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 81% higher texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 480 vs 320
Around 81% better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 200 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1009 vs 628
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 552 vs 397

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2013 vs 12 December 2007
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 320
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1009 vs 628
PassMark - G2D Mark	552 vs 397

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1009

628

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

552

397

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT	ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1009	628
PassMark - G2D Mark	552	397
Geekbench - OpenCL	8800

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT	ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Thames	R600
Launch date	7 January 2013	12 December 2007
Place in performance rating	386	379
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	480	320
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	720 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB / s	118.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Shared memory	0