NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

GPU Specs Compare

G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

NVIDIA 2012-05
G

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD 2013-11

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2012
Nov 2013
Generation
GeForce 600
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
915 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1019 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1536
2560
TMUs
128
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
40

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.61 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
130.4 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.130 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
130.4 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GK104
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GK104-355-A2
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture
Kepler
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
275W
Suggested PSU
700 W
600 W
Outputs
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.1
1.2
CUDA
3.0
-
Shader Model
5.1
6.3

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