AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs AMD Radeon HD 8690M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

AMD Radeon HD 8690M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8690M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1100MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470X +215%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8690M

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

VS

Radeon HD 8690M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Mar 2013

Gem System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

5

-

896

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.50 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

39.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Sun

Emerald XT

GPU Variant

Sun S3 XT (216-0841009)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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