Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs Radeon HD 7690M XT

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 7690M XT, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Mobility Radeon HD 5830 stacks up against Radeon HD 7690M XT, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 7690M XT are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 7690M XT are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Mobility Radeon HD 5830 or Radeon HD 7690M XT here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 7690M XT
Power consumption (TDP) 24 Watt 25 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 7690M XT has 4% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon HD 7690M XT has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 7690M XT are build with Terascale 2 architecture.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 7690M XT is 225 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 7690M XT are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7690M XT is 2800 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 2−3
ultra / 1080p 2−3 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 16−18 12−14
medium / 1080p 6−7 4−5
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5830 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 40% more, than Radeon HD 7690M XT.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 7690M XT
Architecture Terascale 2 Terascale 2
Code name Broadway Thames XTX
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 7 January 2010 7 June 2011
Pipelines 800 480
Core clock speed 500 MHz 725 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 716 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 17.40
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 696.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s 57.6 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.0
OpenGL 4.4 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
Laptop size large medium sized
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