AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 7690M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 1% higher core clock speed: 730 MHz vs 725 MHz
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 780 MHz vs 725 MHz
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 18.72 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
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
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1000 vs 909
19.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 24076 vs 1242

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 25 December 2011
Core clock speed	730 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed	780 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000 vs 909
Geekbench - OpenCL	24076 vs 1242

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Around 25% higher pipelines: 480 vs 384
Around 16% better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 599.0 gflops
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 454 vs 359

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	480 vs 384
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops vs 599.0 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	454 vs 359

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

359

454

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1000

909

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

24076

1242

Name	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
PassMark - G2D Mark	359	454
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000	909
Geekbench - OpenCL	24076	1242

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Oland	Thames
Launch date	5 May 2015	25 December 2011
Place in performance rating	508	505
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz	725 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	480
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory		0