AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT

The AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT is a fast middle-class graphics card for laptops in 2011. It is at heart a renamed Radeon HD 6770M. Therefore, the GPU is still built in 40nm with DirectX11 support. The Radeon HD 7690M (without the XT addition, is the renamed 6750M and offers as a GDDR5 variant lower clock rates or slower DDR3 graphics memory).
The integrated 480 Stream processors are still based on the 5D architecture found in the Radeon 5000 series. Therefore, the number of shaders is not comparable to the 1D cores of current Nvidia GPUs. General Tessellation performance of the Radeon HD 7690M card should be comparable to the desktop 6800 series. The Stream processors can be used with DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, DirectCompute 11 and OpenCL. The latter two features enable the AMD core to transcode videos and perform general computations.
The 3D performance of the HD 7690M XT is slightly better than the GeForce GT 555M and is therefore positioned in the upper middle class as of 2011. Demanding games like Anno 2070 or Skyrim can only be played in medium detail settings and lower resolutions. Even more demanding games, such as Battlefield 3, may only run fluently in low detail settings. Older games like Call of Duty: Black Ops are playable with all settings maxed.
The new UVD3 video decoder supports the decoding of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, Flash and now also Multi-View Codec (MVC) and MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid) HD videos on the AMD graphics card.
Furthermore, the HD 7600M series integrates an HD audio controller to transmit HD Audio (TrueHD or DTS Master Audio) over HDMI and DisplayPort (e.g., for Blu-Ray videos).
The AMD HD3D Technology offers support for Blu-Ray 3D and 3D displays (integrated and external). This solution, however, is not as mature as Nvidia's 3D Vision in terms of drivers and general software support.
Thanks to Eyefinity, the HD 7690M is able to theoretically drive up to 5 monitors simultaneously. Note that this would only work if the laptop features enough DisplayPort outputs to begin with.
The power consumption of the HD 7690M should be similar to the Mobility Radeon HD 5770 and is therefore usually found in 15-inch or larger notebooks with more powerful cooling solutions.
Manufacturer | AMD |
Radeon HD 7600M Series | |
Codename | Thames XTX |
Architecture | Terascale 2 |
Pipelines | 480 - unified |
Core Speed | 725 MHz |
Memory Speed | 3600 MHz |
Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit |
Memory Type | GDDR5 |
Shared Memory | no |
DirectX | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 |
Transistor Count | 716 Million |
technology | 40 nm |
Notebook Size | medium sized |
Date of Announcement | 07.06.2011 |
Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.amd.com/de/products/notebook/... |
Benchmarks
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 1517 avg: 1551 median: 1550.5 (4%) max: 1584 Points
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
1346 Points (2%)
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3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
min: 6765 avg: 7055 median: 7054.5 (7%) max: 7344 Points
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3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
5594 Points (5%)
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3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
17545 Points (26%)
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 5%
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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +min: 10628 avg: 10919 median: 10919 (20%) max: 11210 Points
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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics
min: 6.6 avg: 6.7 median: 6.7 (84%) max: 6.7 Points
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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics
min: 6.6 avg: 6.7 median: 6.7 (84%) max: 6.7 Points
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Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
5514 points (26%)
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Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
51.5 fps (23%)
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -2%
ATI Radeon HD 5670 3%
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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -4%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 22%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -17%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 8%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 40%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 261%
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ATI Radeon HD 4850 78%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -23%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -26%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 11%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 16%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 9%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 13%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 21%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 23%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 23%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 26%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 33%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 78%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 78%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 29%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 35%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 182%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 -54%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 -46%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 54%
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 15%
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 26%
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 14%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 34%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 42%
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 -6%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 9%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 29%
ATI Radeon HD 5770 53%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 53%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -8%
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 -24%
ATI Radeon HD 5670 -2%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 27%
ATI Radeon HD 5850 36%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 38%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 31%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 33%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 44%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 41%
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 17%
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ATI Radeon HD 5770 -4%
ATI Radeon HD 5670 4%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 22%
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ATI Radeon HD 5570 -49%
ATI Radeon HD 5670 -16%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 21%
ATI Radeon HD 5770 30%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 31%
AMD Radeon HD 6790 34%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 36%
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 -1%
ATI Radeon HD 5670 3%
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 -1%
ATI Radeon HD 4850 1%
ATI Radeon HD 5770 67%
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 70%
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» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
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