Radeon HD 5690 vs Radeon HD 7730

Radeon HD 5690
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
Radeon HD 5690
Radeon HD 7730
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 May 2013
Radeon HD 7730

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5690

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7730

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5690Radeon HD 7730
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood XT)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors627 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders400vs384
Compute Units5vs6
Core clock775 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs20vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5690Radeon HD 7730
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5690Radeon HD 7730
TDP64 wattsvs47 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2011vs1 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5690
    6.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7730
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5690
    15.50 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7730
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5690
    32.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7730
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5690
    620.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7730
    614.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better