AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 38% higher boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 725 MHz
14.7x more texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
8.5x more pipelines: 4096 vs 480
11.8x better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 25 December 2011
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4096 vs 480
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

8.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 175 Watt
3.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 500 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4579
PassMark - G3D Mark		909
PassMark - G2D Mark		454
Geekbench - OpenCL		1242

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Fiji	Thames
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	25 December 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	498	500
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	725 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	4096	480
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	716 million
Core clock speed		725 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore