AMD Radeon HD 8690M vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8690M and AMD Radeon HD 6990 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, 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8690M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 630

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990

• Around 7% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 775 MHz
• 17x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 16.5 GTexel / s
• 8x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 384
• 9.7x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 528.0 gflops
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4000 MHz
• 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3013 vs 984
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3713 vs 1813
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3713 vs 1813
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 3178
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 3178
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4562 vs 1579
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4562 vs 1579

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8690M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6990

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	984 3013
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	768 630
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1813 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1813 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3178 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3178 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1579 4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1579 4562

Compare specifications (specs)