AMD Radeon HD 8690M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8690M and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 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, 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 8690M

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8690M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 612 MHz
3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
Around 36% better floating-point performance: 528.0 gflops vs 387.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
3.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 984 vs 643
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 252

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2013 vs 2 May 2007
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 612 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 128
Floating-point performance	528.0 gflops vs 387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	984 vs 643
PassMark - G2D Mark	768 vs 252

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

2.4x more texture fill rate: 39.2 billion / sec vs 16.5 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec vs 16.5 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8690M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

984

643

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

768

252

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8690M	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	984	643
PassMark - G2D Mark	768	252
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 8690M	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Sun	G80
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 March 2013	2 May 2007
Place in performance rating	612	615
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$829
Technical info
Boost clock speed	775 MHz
Compute units	6
Core clock speed	775 MHz	612 MHz
Floating-point performance	528.0 gflops	387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384	128
Texture fill rate	16.5 GTexel / s	39.2 billion / sec
Transistor count	1,040 million	681 million
CUDA cores		612
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		171 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		270 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	32 GB / s	103.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
SLI