Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2012 | Oct 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 | 2816 |
| TMUs | 128 | 176 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 1024 KB |
| Compute Units | 44 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 32.61 GPixel/s | 64.00 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 130.4 GTexel/s | 176.0 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.130 TFLOPS | 5.632 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 130.4 GFLOPS | 704.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK104 | Hawaii |
| GPU Variant | GK104-355-A2 | Hawaii XT(215-0852000) |
| 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 | 290W |
| 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 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | 1.2.170 |
| CUDA | 3.0 | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.5 |