AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 925 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • 4.3x more texture fill rate: 74 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 1280 vs 480
  • 3.4x better floating-point performance: 2,368 gflops vs 696.0 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
  • 4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 909
  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 454
  • 59.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74175 vs 1242
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 November 2013 vs 25 December 2011
Boost clock speed 925 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate 74 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 480
Floating-point performance 2,368 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4306 vs 909
PassMark - G2D Mark 567 vs 454
Geekbench - OpenCL 74175 vs 1242

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

  • 7.5x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4306
909
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
567
454
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
74175
1242
Name AMD Radeon R9 270 AMD Radeon HD 7690M
PassMark - G3D Mark 4306 909
PassMark - G2D Mark 567 454
Geekbench - OpenCL 74175 1242
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1282.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 93.116
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 261.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1603

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 270 AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Curacao Thames
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 13 November 2013 25 December 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Place in performance rating 510 507
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 925 MHz 725 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,368 gflops 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1280 480
Stream Processors 1280
Texture fill rate 74 GTexel / s 17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 716 million
Core clock speed 725 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5 / DDR3
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)