Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 5690 vs Radeon HD 7730
AMD
Radeon HD 5690
1024 Mb GDDR3
Released 1 Feb 2011
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VS
AMD
Radeon HD 7730
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 1 May 2013
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Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 5690
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 7730
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Mantle
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 5690 | Radeon HD 7730 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Redwood (Redwood XT) | Cape Verde (Cape Verde LE) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 627 million | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 400 | 384 |
| Compute Units | 5 | 6 |
| Core clock | 775 MHz | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | 8 |
| TMUs | 20 | 24 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 5690 | Radeon HD 7730 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5690 | Radeon HD 7730 |
|---|
| TDP | 64 watts | 47 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Feb 2011 | 1 May 2013 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 56906.20 GP/s
- Radeon HD 77306.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 569015.50 GT/s
- Radeon HD 773019.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 569032.00 GB/s
- Radeon HD 773072.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 5690620.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 7730614.40 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better