NVIDIA GeForce 705M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8690M
NVIDIA GeForce 705M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8690M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8690M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

879
Place in performance rating
654
Fermi
Architecture
GCN
GF119
Code name
Sun
Laptop
Type
Laptop
1 June 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
16 November 2012 (9 years ago)
$163
Price now
$596
0.07
Value for money
0.12
GF119
GPU code name
Sun
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8690M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

48
Pipelines
320
775 MHz
Core clock speed
775 MHz
no data
Boost Clock
825 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
690 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
15 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
5.904
Texture fill rate
16.50
141.7 gflops
Floating-point performance
528.0 gflops
48
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
no data
Boost clock speed
825 MHz
292 million
Number of transistors
690 million
15 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8690M.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
no data
Laptop size
medium sized
PCI Express 2.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8690M can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
14.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
DDR3
Standard memory configuration
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8690M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
HDMI
no data
Up to 2048x1536
VGA аnalog display support
no data
Up to 2560x1600
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
no data
Up to 2560x1600
eDP 1.2 signal support
no data
Up to 1920x1200
LVDS signal support
no data
+
HDCP content protection
no data
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
no data
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8690M is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
no data
+
FXAA
no data
+
Blu-Ray 3D Support
no data
+
Direct Compute
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8690M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 API
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Vulkan
no data
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8690M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 705M or AMD Radeon HD 8690M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon HD 8690M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon HD 8690M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon HD 8690M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon HD 8690M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon HD 8690M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 705M

Cheaper ($163 vs $596)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8690M

2.45% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (320 vs 48)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More memory bandwidth (32 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 705M or AMD Radeon HD 8690M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 8690M .

NVIDIA GeForce 705M versus AMD Radeon HD 8690M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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