AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1206MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +57%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2012

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK104

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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