GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon HD 7950 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon HD 7950
GeForce GTX 690
5738
Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon HD 7950
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK104
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
January 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
1250 MHz
Compute units
-
28
Core clock speed
915 MHz
-
CUDA cores
3072
-
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
89.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
3 GB
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
240 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
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6
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
4.6
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
-
+