Radeon HD 8690M: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon HD 8690M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.23% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 8690M sales 1 March 2013. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 8690M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking881
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameSun
Market segmentLaptop
Release date1 March 2013 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 8690M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 8690M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed775 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed825 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors690 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate16.50of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs8of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs20of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache80 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache128 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 8690M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 8690M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1000 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 8690M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 8690M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 8690M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

HD 8690M
2.23

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

HD 8690M 984
Samples: 9

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

HD 8690M 1600

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

HD 8690M 1210

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

HD 8690M 7930

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 8690M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD17

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 6−7
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 7−8
Counter-Strike 2 6−7
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 7−8
Fortnite 12−14
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
Forza Horizon 5 5−6
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 12−14
Valorant 40−45

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 7−8
Counter-Strike 2 6−7
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 45−50
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Dota 2 24−27
Far Cry 5 7−8
Fortnite 12−14
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
Forza Horizon 5 5−6
Grand Theft Auto V 6−7
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
Metro Exodus 4−5
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Valorant 40−45

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 7−8
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Dota 2 24−27
Far Cry 5 7−8
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Valorant 40−45

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 12−14

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 6−7
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 16−18
Grand Theft Auto V 1−2
Metro Exodus 0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 21−24
Valorant 20−22

1440p
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 4−5
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
Hogwarts Legacy 2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 4−5

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 16−18
Valorant 12−14

4K
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Dota 2 6−7
Far Cry 5 1−2
Forza Horizon 4 1−2
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 3−4

4K
Epic

Fortnite 3−4

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 8690M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 8690M is GeForce 930M, which is faster by 2% and higher by 10 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 8690M:

GeForce 920MX 108.52
GeForce 830M 102.69
GeForce 930M 102.24
Radeon HD 8690M 100

Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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