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GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon HD 7850 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon HD 7850

GeForce GTX 690
5738
Radeon HD 7850
3976

GeForce GTX 690

Radeon HD 7850


Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name
GK104
Pitcairn

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
May 2012
March 2012

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 6-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
1000 MHz

Core clock speed
915 MHz
-

CUDA cores
3072
-

Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
1,761 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1024

Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
130 Watt

Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
55.04

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
1200 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
1x 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)
12

CUDA
+
-

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.2
4.6

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
1.1.126
+

3D Blu-Ray
+
-

3D Gaming
+
-

3D Vision Live
+
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
-
1

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
-
1

HD3D
-
-

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
-
-