AMD Radeon HD 8690M vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8690M and NVIDIA Quadro 500M 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8690M

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8690M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 11% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 47% higher texture fill rate: 16.5 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
Around 96% better floating-point performance: 528.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 984 vs 571
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 365

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2013 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	16.5 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 96
Floating-point performance	528.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	984 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	768 vs 365

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Around 72% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8743 vs 5079

Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743 vs 5079

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8690M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

984

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

768

365

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

5079

8743

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8690M	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	984	571
PassMark - G2D Mark	768	365
Geekbench - OpenCL	5079	8743
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 Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi
Code name	Sun	GF108
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 March 2013	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	628	630
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	775 MHz
Compute units	6
Core clock speed	775 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	528.0 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	96
Texture fill rate	16.5 GTexel / s	11.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	585 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	32 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0