GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon HD 6950 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon HD 6950
GeForce GTX 690
5738
Radeon HD 6950
2693
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon HD 6950
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
GK104
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
December 2010
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
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
800 MHz
Core clock speed
915 MHz
-
CUDA cores
3072
-
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
2,252.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
500 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
70.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
2 GB
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
Yes (via dongle)
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-