NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1050MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +37%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Jun 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

1000 MHz

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1536

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

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

33.60 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 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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