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

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

AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 46% higher texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 480 vs 320
Around 46% better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 475.5 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
8.6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 215 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1656 MHz
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1009 vs 660
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 552 vs 397

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2013 vs 14 May 2007
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 320
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops vs 475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 215 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1656 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1009 vs 660
PassMark - G2D Mark	552 vs 397

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 743 MHz vs 725 MHz

Core clock speed	743 MHz vs 725 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1009

660

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

552

397

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT	ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1009	660
PassMark - G2D Mark	552	397
Geekbench - OpenCL	8800

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT	ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Thames	R600
Launch date	7 January 2013	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	386	375
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	743 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	480	320
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	11.89 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	215 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 6-pin + 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	106.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1656 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0