Radeon HD 6690G2 vs FirePro W5100

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	521	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	10.72	no data
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Bonaire	no data
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	31 March 2014 (10 years ago)	14 June 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	880
Core clock speed	930 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,080 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	44.64	no data
Floating-point processing power	1.428 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	no data
TMUs	48	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	171 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Form factor	full height / half length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	-

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	4x DisplayPort	no data
StereoOutput3D	+	-
DisplayPort count	4	no data
Dual-link DVI support	+	-
HD сomponent video output	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	11
Shader Model	6.3	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	31 March 2014	14 June 2011
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm

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