AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) 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: 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 926 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • Around 66% higher boost clock speed: 1206 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • 7.9x more texture fill rate: 137.5 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
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.7x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 27.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34588 vs 1242
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 August 2016 vs 25 December 2011
Core clock speed 926 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed 1206 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate 137.5 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 1 GB
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 34588 vs 1242

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

  • 142x better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
  • 6x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 120 Watt
Floating-point performance 696.0 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
34588
1242
Name AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) AMD Radeon HD 7690M
Geekbench - OpenCL 34588 1242
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 3699
PassMark - G3D Mark 1003
PassMark - G2D Mark 576

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) AMD Radeon HD 7690M

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 25 December 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $549.99
Place in performance rating 482 389
Price now $109.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 91.95

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1206 MHz 725 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 137.5 GTexel / s 17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 716 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size large medium sized
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5 / DDR3
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