GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon R9 270X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon R9 270X
GeForce GTX 690
5738
Radeon R9 270X
5036
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon R9 270X
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GK104
Curacao XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
October 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
2 x 6-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
2,688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
84.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
4 GB
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
Yes (via dongle)
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 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
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-