NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690 +132%

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 600

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

1536

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Barts

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

255 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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