Radeon HD 6850M vs Radeon HD 7690M

Radeon HD 6850M
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3MOBILE
Release date: 4 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6850M
Radeon HD 7690M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 25 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 7690M

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850M

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7690M

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6850M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon HD 7690M
GPU NameGranville (Granville PRO)vsThames (Thames XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs716 million
Shaders800vs480
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock675 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon HD 7690M
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6850MRadeon HD 7690M
TDP50 wattsvs20 watts
Release Date4 Jan 2011vs25 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    10.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7690M
    11.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    27.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7690M
    17.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7690M
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6850M
    1080.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7690M
    696.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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