NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2012
Mar 2011
Generation
GeForce 600
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
915 MHz
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Boost Clock
1019 MHz
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Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
1536
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.61 GPixel/s
26.56 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
130.4 GTexel/s
79.68 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.130 TFLOPS
2.550 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
130.4 GFLOPS
637.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
Antilles
GPU Variant
GK104-355-A2
Antilles XT(215-0807027)
Architecture
Kepler
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
375W
Suggested PSU
700 W
750 W
Outputs
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
N/A
CUDA
3.0
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Shader Model
5.1
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.