AMD Radeon HD 8690M vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Sun Venus
GPU variant Sun XT Venus PRO
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 690 million 1,500 million
Die size 56 mm² 123 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Mar 1st, 2013 Apr 1st, 2013
Generation Solar System (HD 8600M) Solar System (HD 8800M)
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor London London
Successor Crystal System Crystal System

Clocks

Base clock 775 MHz 575 MHz
Boost clock 825 MHz 625 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 32.00 GB/s 32.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 320 640
TMUs 20 40
ROPs 8 16
Compute units 5 10
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB 256 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.600 GPixel/s 10.00 GPixel/s
Texture rate 16.50 GTexel/s 25.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 528.0 GFLOPS 800.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 33.00 GFLOPS (1:16) 50.00 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP unknown unknown
Outputs No outputs No outputs

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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