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GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon HD 5870 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon HD 5870

GeForce GTX 690
5738
Radeon HD 5870
2282

GeForce GTX 690

Radeon HD 5870


Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
GK104
Cypress

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
May 2012
September 2009

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
2x 6-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
-

Core clock speed
915 MHz
850 MHz

CUDA cores
3072
-

Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
2,720.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1600

Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
188 Watt

Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
68.00

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
1 GB

Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
153.6 GB/s

Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support
4 displays
-

HDMI
Yes (via dongle)
+

HDCP
+
-

Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-

Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-

DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.2
4.4

Shader Model
5.1
5.0

Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A

3D Blu-Ray
+
-

3D Gaming
+
-

3D Vision Live
+
-