ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 300W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1019MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690 +557%

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2012

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GK104

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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