GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK104
New Zealand
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
August 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
3x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
-
Core clock speed
915 MHz
925 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
-
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
2x 3,789 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
500 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
118.4
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
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
Yes (via dongle)
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-