ATI Radeon HD 5690 vs ATI Mobility HD 5730

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking986not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.94no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameMadisonRedwood
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 February 2011 (13 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 cores400400
Core clock speed650 MHz775 MHz
Number of transistors627 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt64 Watt
Texture fill rate13.0015.50
Floating-point processing power0.52 TFLOPS0.62 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2020

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
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot

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 amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s32 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 1 February 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 64 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5730 has 146.2% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 5690, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5730 and Radeon HD 5690. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5730 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 5690 is a desktop one.


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