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.

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

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	392
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