NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 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 134.4GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690 +15%

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Jan 2013

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

20

-

1536

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

175W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Cypress

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

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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