NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690 +154%

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 600

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1536

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

85W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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