Radeon HD 6690G2 vs RX 480

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking247not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.78no data
Power efficiency10.38no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameEllesmereno data
GCN generation4th Genno data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date29 June 2016 (8 years ago)14 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2304880
Compute units36no data
Core clock speed1120 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1266 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data
Texture fill rate182.3no data
Floating-point processing power5.834 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs144no 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 supportn/ano data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed8000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth224 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
Eyefinity+-
HDMI2.0-
DisplayPort support1.4HDR-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAccelerationn/a-
CrossFire+-
Enduron/a-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3Dn/a-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudion/a-
ZeroCore+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1211
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.5no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan+-
Mantlen/a-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2016 14 June 2011
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm

RX 480 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 and Radeon HD 6690G2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 480 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 6690G2 is a notebook one.


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