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.
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 |
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Name | AMD Radeon HD 7690M | AMD Radeon HD 7970 |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | TeraScale 2 | GCN 1.0 |
Code name | Thames | Tahiti |
Launch date | 25 December 2011 | 22 December 2011 |
Place in performance rating | 500 | 501 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Design | AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | |
Technical info |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort |
DisplayPort support | ||
Dual-link DVI support | ||
Eyefinity | ||
HDMI | ||
VGA | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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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 |
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DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 11 |
OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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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 |
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AMD Eyefinity | ||
CrossFire | ||
FreeSync |