NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690 +557%

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

1536

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

215W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

R600

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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