NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon R9 290
GPU Specs Compare
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
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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
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Shader Model
5.1
6.3
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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