Radeon 620 vs ATI HD 5690

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated845
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.21
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameRedwoodPolaris 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 February 2011 (13 years ago)13 May 2019 (5 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 cores400384
Core clock speed775 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors627 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)64 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate15.5024.58
Floating-point processing power0.62 TFLOPS0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2024

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s14.4 GB/s
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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.3
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2011 13 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 64 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 620 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 28% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5690 and Radeon 620. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5690 is a desktop card while Radeon 620 is a notebook one.


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