GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK104
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
June 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 + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
915 MHz
-
CUDA cores
3072
-
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
134.4
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
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
288 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)
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
-
-