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Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The Geforce GTX 690 features clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 690 13111 points
Radeon R7 370 2G 5582 points
Difference: 7529 (135%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 190 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 690 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 205312 (115%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be a lot (more or less 275%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 171840 (275%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 27360 (88%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Geforce GTX 690

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 690 Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2012 June 2015
Code Name GK104 Trinidad
Memory 2048 MB (x2) 2048 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz (x2) 975 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz (x2) 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 384512 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 234240 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 58560 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 (x2) 1024
Texture Mapping Units 128 (x2) 64
Render Output Units 32 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3540 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 690

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Radeon R7 370 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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