ATI Radeon E4690 vs HD 6930

Place in the ranking	537	1092
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.00	no data
Power efficiency	2.72	2.44
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	Cayman	RV730
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	1 December 2011 (12 years ago)	1 June 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$180	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores	1280	320
Core clock speed	750 MHz	600 MHz
Number of transistors	2,640 million	514 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	186 Watt	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	60.00	19.20
Floating-point processing power	1.92 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	8
TMUs	80	32

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	220 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	MXM Module
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	22.4 GB/s

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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	no data
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
Shader Model	5.0	4.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.0
Vulkan	N/A	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	7.27	1.05
Recency	1 December 2011	1 June 2009
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	186 Watt	30 Watt

HD 6930 has a 592.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

ATI E4690, on the other hand, has 520% lower power consumption.

The Radeon HD 6930 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon E4690 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.