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Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The Geforce GTX 690 features core speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 690 should be 68% quicker than the Radeon RX 5500 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a lot (about 59%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 87280 (59%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a little bit (about 10%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5120 (10%)

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.

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Geforce GTX 690

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 690 Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2012 October 2019
Code Name GK104 Navi 14 XT
Memory 2048 MB (x2) 4096 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz (x2) 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz (x2) 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 384512 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 234240 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 58560 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 (x2) 1408
Texture Mapping Units 128 (x2) 88
Render Output Units 32 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 3540 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 690

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Radeon RX 5500

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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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