Radeon HD 8690M and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8690M
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Sun
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
825 MHz
-
Core clock speed
775 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
528.0 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.50
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
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