Radeon HD 6870M vs Radeon HD 7690M XT
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 XT |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6870M | | Radeon HD 7690M XT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Granville (Granville XT) | vs | Thames (Thames XTX) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 166 mm² | vs | 104 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,040 million | vs | 716 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 480 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 675 MHz | vs | 725 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6870M | | Radeon HD 7690M XT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6870M | | Radeon HD 7690M XT | |
|---|
| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 25 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Jan 2011 | vs | 7 Jan 2013 |
Radeon HD 6870M
10.80 GP/s
Radeon HD 7690M XT
5.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870M
27.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 7690M XT
17.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870M
64.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7690M XT
57.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870M
1080.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7690M XT
696.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better