ATI Radeon 9600 XT vs HD 8690M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking821not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameSunRV360
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed775 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data22 Watt
Texture fill rate16.502.000
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs204

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 3.0 x8AGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz300 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s9.6 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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
+2711%
ATI 9600 XT 35

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

HD 8690M has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8690M and Radeon 9600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8690M is a notebook card while Radeon 9600 XT is a desktop one.


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