ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)
184 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (64W vs 171W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)