GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8690M
CORE STATE
Sun
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
975 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 580
CORE STATE
Polaris 20
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1340 MHz
TDP
185 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8690M
RX 580
Core Specs
Shading Units
320
2,304
+620.0%
Shaders
320
2,304
+620.0%
TMUs
20
144
+620.0%
ROPs
8
32
+300.0%
Compute Units
5
36
+620.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
925 MHz
1257 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1340 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
32.00 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
128 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.800 GPixel/s
42.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
19.50 GTexel/s
193.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
624.0 GFLOPS
6.175 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
39.00 GFLOPS (1:16)
385.9 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
6.175 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
—
185 W
TDP (W)
—
185
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Sun
Polaris 20
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8600M)
Polaris
(RX 500)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
690 million
5,700 million
Die Size
56 mm²
232 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
12.3M / mm²
24.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
—
Dual-slot
Length
—
241 mm
9.5 inches
Outputs
—
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
229 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
Arctic Islands
Successor
Gem System
Vega