Radeon HD 6690G2 vs FirePro W5100

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking519not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.81no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBonaireno data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date31 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 cores768880
Core clock speed930 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,080 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate44.64no data
Floating-point processing power1.428 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs48no 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 sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length171 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sno 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 Connectors4x DisplayPortno data
StereoOutput3D+-
DisplayPort count4no data
Dual-link DVI support+-
HD сomponent video output+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


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

FirePro W5100 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5100 and Radeon HD 6690G2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W5100 is a workstation card while Radeon HD 6690G2 is a notebook one.


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AMD FirePro W5100
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