AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) 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, 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 RX 470 (Desktop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 926 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • 8.9x more texture fill rate: 154.4 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
  • 4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 83% higher memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 3600 MHz
  • 7.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7977 vs 1009
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 724 vs 552
  • 3.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33718 vs 8800
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 August 2016 vs 7 January 2013
Core clock speed 926 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate 154.4 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz vs 3600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7977 vs 1009
PassMark - G2D Mark 724 vs 552
Geekbench - OpenCL 33718 vs 8800

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

  • 142x better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
  • 4.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 120 Watt
Floating-point performance 696.0 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7977
1009
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
724
552
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
33718
8800
Name AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 7977 1009
PassMark - G2D Mark 724 552
Geekbench - OpenCL 33718 8800
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1817.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 99.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 511.362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1674
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 839

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Terascale 2
Code name Ellesmere Thames
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 4 August 2016 7 January 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Place in performance rating 396 397
Price now $109.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 100.00

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1206 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 926 MHz 725 MHz
Floating-point performance 4.9 TFLOPs 696.0 gflops
GPU Power 85-110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2048 480
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 154.4 GTexel / s 17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 716 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 11
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore