Radeon HD 3690 vs Radeon HD 5690

Radeon HD 3690
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Mar 2008
Radeon HD 3690
Radeon HD 5690
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
Radeon HD 5690

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3690

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5690

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5690

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5690

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3690Radeon HD 5690
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsRedwood (Redwood XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs627 million
Shaders320vs400
Compute Units4vs5
Core clock670 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs16vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3690Radeon HD 5690
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed830 MHz
1660 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3690Radeon HD 5690
TDP75 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date30 Mar 2008vs1 Feb 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3690
    10.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5690
    6.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3690
    10.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5690
    15.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3690
    26.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5690
    32.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3690
    428.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5690
    620.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better