GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon RX 550X 640SP - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon RX 550X 640SP
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GK104
Baffin
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
April 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
1071 MHz
Core clock speed
915 MHz
1019 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
-
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
1,371 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
640
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
42.84
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)
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
96 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x 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 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-