NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +21%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Dec 2011

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

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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