NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2012
Jun 2010
Generation
GeForce 600
Evergreen
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
1195 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
153.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
1600
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
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20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.61 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
130.4 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.130 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
130.4 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
Cypress
GPU Variant
GK104-355-A2
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture
Kepler
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
228W
Suggested PSU
700 W
550 W
Outputs
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-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.