AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

  • Around 38% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • 4.6x more texture fill rate: 80 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 1280 vs 480
  • 3.7x better floating-point performance: 2,560 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 3600 MHz
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate 80 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 480
Floating-point performance 2,560 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

  • 7x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 175 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Name AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 1009
PassMark - G2D Mark 552
Geekbench - OpenCL 8800

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Terascale 2
Code name Pitcairn Thames
Launch date 8 January 2013 7 January 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 391
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1000 MHz 725 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,560 gflops 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1280 480
Texture fill rate 80 GTexel / s 17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 716 million

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 2.0 x16
Length 241 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 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB / s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

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