Radeon HD 8690M vs R7 A265

Place in performance ranking	785	788
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.07	0.14
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	Opal	Sun
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	9 January 2014 (10 years ago)	16 November 2012 (11 years ago)
Current price	$324	$596

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

HD 8690M has 100% better value for money than R7 A265.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	384
Core clock speed	725 MHz	775 MHz
Boost clock speed	825 MHz	825 MHz
Number of transistors	950 million	690 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Texture fill rate	19.80	16.50
Floating-point performance	633.6 gflops	528.0 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R7 A265 and Radeon HD 8690M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8

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	DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	32 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 Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R7 A265 2.57
+1.2%

HD 8690M 2.54

R7 A265 outperforms HD 8690M by 1% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

R7 A265 993
+0.9%

HD 8690M 984

R7 A265 outperforms HD 8690M by 1% in Passmark.