ATI Radeon HD 3690 vs ATI Mobility HD 3670

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameM86RV670
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2008 (16 years ago)30 March 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores120320
Core clock speed680 MHz670 MHz
Number of transistors378 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate5.44010.72
Floating-point processing power0.1632 TFLOPS0.4288 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs816

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz830 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s26.56 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2008 30 March 2008
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 75 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 3670 has 150% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 3690, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3670 and Radeon HD 3690. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 3670 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 3690 is a desktop one.


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