AMD Radeon HD 8690M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8690M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8690M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8690M 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8690M +225%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8690M

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Mar 2009

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

320

Shading Units

64

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

19.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

39.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

G94

Sun S3 XT (216-0841009)

GPU Variant

N10E-GS1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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