AMD Radeon HD 8690M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8690M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8690M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 775 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 38% higher texture fill rate: 16.5 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
  • 16x more pipelines: 384 vs 24
  • 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
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 984 vs 270
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 264
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2013 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 500 MHz
Boost clock speed 775 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 16.5 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 984 vs 270
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 vs 264

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8690M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
984
270
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
768
264
Name AMD Radeon HD 8690M NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 984 270
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 264
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 Go 7900 GTX

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Curie
Code name Sun G71
Design AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date 1 March 2013 18 April 2006
Place in performance rating 623 625
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 775 MHz 500 MHz
Compute units 6
Core clock speed 775 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 384 24
Texture fill rate 16.5 GTexel / s 12 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,040 million 278 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 32 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 600 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256
Shared memory 0 0