AMD Radeon HD 7690M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7690M and AMD Radeon HD 7970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 7690M

AMD Radeon HD 7970

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

15x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 31% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1375 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1375 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970

Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 925 MHz vs 725 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
5.4x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
27.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34541 vs 1242

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	925 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	118.4 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 480
Floating-point performance	3,789 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	34541 vs 1242

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7690M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

1242

34541

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7690M	AMD Radeon HD 7970
PassMark - G3D Mark	909
PassMark - G2D Mark	454
Geekbench - OpenCL	1242	34541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		84.413
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1390.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		7.336
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		101.929
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		481.76
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2276

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7690M	AMD Radeon HD 7970
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	GCN 1.0
Code name	Thames	Tahiti
Launch date	25 December 2011	22 December 2011
Place in performance rating	499	500
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$549
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz	925 MHz
Core clock speed	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	480	2048
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	4,313 million
Stream Processors		2048
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Length		274 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.4	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	264 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1375 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5 / DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync