NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690 +49%

3.13 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 600

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

-

1536

Shading Units

1440

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

302W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Hemlock

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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