[SOLVED] Radeon HD 7690m support

BennyBolton · 2012-08-03 11:28:39

I have an HP laptop with two GPU's, a radeon hd 6490m and a radeon hd 7690m. I have catalyst running fine with switchable graphics, the 6490m runs fine as expected but the 7690m shows up as 6000 series. I am aware that support for the 7000 series is not fully available and i was curious when i could expect support?

Last edited by BennyBolton (2012-08-03 12:54:55)

Gusar · 2012-08-03 11:38:57

The 7690m *is* 6000 series. Most of 6000 and 7000 belong to the Northern Islands family. Only the highest-end 7000 (7750-7970) are a new generation - Southern Islands.

Also, the non-support for Southern Islands is regarding the open radeon driver, not Catalyst.

BennyBolton · 2012-08-03 12:07:38

ok so i ran some tests. I was really using glxgears to compare performance. I get about 850 FPS with the 7690m and 2500 FPS with the 6490m so i assumed the 7690m wasn't working properly and i had read that it had bad support on linux, but after reading your post i decided to run more tests. Darkplaces running quake gets 70 FPS on the 6490m but it gets 140 FPS on the 7690m. Also quake4 gets 30 FPS on the 6490m and 50 on the 7690m. Does anyone know why glxgears is getting bad scores?

Gusar · 2012-08-03 12:09:18

glxgears is not a benchmark!!

Thanks for your post though, now every time someone will mention glxgears, I'll just point them to this thread.

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BennyBolton · 2012-08-03 12:11:34

Oh. Fair enough i suppose. Would you recommend a good benchmarking tool? preferably compatable with windows as well so i can compare

Gusar · 2012-08-03 12:13:39

Games are the best benchmarking tools. That or engine demonstrations - the Unigine demos for example.

BennyBolton · 2012-08-03 12:51:51

I ran darkplaces on windows and arch with default config and it runs a bit bitter in windows but im not too worried about that for now. Thanks for the help

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#1 2012-08-03 11:28:39

[SOLVED] Radeon HD 7690m support

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Re: [SOLVED] Radeon HD 7690m support

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Re: [SOLVED] Radeon HD 7690m support

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