AMD Radeon HD 7690M vs ATI FireGL V8600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7690M and ATI FireGL V8600 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

ATI FireGL V8600

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 688 MHz
Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 480 vs 320
Around 58% better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 159 Watt
Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1736 MHz
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1003 vs 839
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 576 vs 406

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 December 2011 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 688 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 320
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 159 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1736 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1003 vs 839
PassMark - G2D Mark	576 vs 406

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7690M
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1003

839

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

576

406

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7690M	ATI FireGL V8600
PassMark - G3D Mark	1003	839
PassMark - G2D Mark	576	406
Geekbench - OpenCL	1242

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7690M	ATI FireGL V8600
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Thames	R600
Launch date	25 December 2011	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	389	363
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,899
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz
Core clock speed	725 MHz	688 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	480	320
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	11.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	159 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	720 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length		254 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1736 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5 / DDR3	GDDR4
Shared memory	0