AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7690M XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +231%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7690M XT

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon HD 7690M XT

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2013

Solar System

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Thames

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Thames XTX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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