AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8690M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 8690M 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8690M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 775 MHz
5.4x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 16.5 GTexel / s
4.7x more pipelines: 1792 vs 384
5.4x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 528.0 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 16.5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 528.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8690M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 8690M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	370.179
PassMark - G3D Mark		984
PassMark - G2D Mark		768
Geekbench - OpenCL		5079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1813
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3178
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3178
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1579
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1579

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 8690M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Tahiti	Sun
Launch date	7 March 2013	1 March 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	611	612
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	775 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1792	384
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	16.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	1,040 million
Boost clock speed		775 MHz
Compute units		6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	32 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0