NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q

AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 725 MHz
Around 63% higher boost clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 725 MHz
8.7x more texture fill rate: 151.0 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
6.9x better floating-point performance: 4,833 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
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5203 vs 1003

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 August 2015 vs 25 December 2011
Core clock speed	930 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1180 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	151.0 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 480
Floating-point performance	4,833 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5203 vs 1003

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

11.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 576 vs 311

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 225 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	576 vs 311

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5203

1003

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

311

576

Name	NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
PassMark - G3D Mark	5203	1003
PassMark - G2D Mark	311	576
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5460
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5460
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3526
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3526
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
Geekbench - OpenCL		1242

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM204	Thames
Launch date	30 August 2015	25 December 2011
Place in performance rating	474	389
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1180 MHz	725 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,833 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	480
Texture fill rate	151.0 GTexel / s	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.4 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory		0