Radeon HD 7690M vs Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 7690M and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge, 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 Radeon HD 7690M stacks up against Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge, check out specs charts below.

Radeon HD 7690M and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Radeon HD 7690M and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge 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 Radeon HD 7690M or Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge here:

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 7690M Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 12-45 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5/DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 7690M has 66% more power consumption, than Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • Radeon HD 7690M is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - with GCN 1.2/2.0.
  • Radeon HD 7690M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 3−4
ultra / 1080p 0−1 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 12−14 14−16
medium / 1080p 4−5 5−6
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 33% more, than Radeon HD 7690M.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 7690M Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.2/2.0
Code name Thames XT / XTX Bristol Ridge
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 7 June 2011 1 June 2016
Pipelines 480 384
Core clock speed 600 MHz
Boost Clock 725 MHz 800 MHz
Transistor count 716 million 3100 Million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 17.40
Floating-point performance 696.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3600/1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s
Shared memory - +
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model 5.0
OpenGL 4.4
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan N/A
Laptop size medium sized medium sized
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