AMD Radeon HD 8690M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8690M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8690M 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8690M

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +248%

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8690M

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Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2012

Solar System

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

20

320

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

19.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

39.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Wimbledon

Sun S3 XT (216-0841009)

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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