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Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon HD 7950

Intro

The Geforce GTX 690 comes with a GPU core speed of 915 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1502 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1536 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7950, which has GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 1536 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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 HD 7950 7731 points
Difference: 5380 (70%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7950 200 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 100 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 690 should in theory be much better than the Radeon HD 7950 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7950 240000 MB/sec
Difference: 144512 (60%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a lot (more or less 161%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 89600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 144640 (161%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 32960 (129%)

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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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 690 Radeon HD 7950
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2012 January 2012
Code Name GK104 Tahiti Pro
Memory 2048 MB (x2) 1536 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz (x2) 800 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz (x2) 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 200 watts
Bandwidth 384512 MB/sec 240000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 234240 Mtexels/sec 89600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 58560 Mpixels/sec 25600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 (x2) 1792
Texture Mapping Units 128 (x2) 112
Render Output Units 32 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 384-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3540 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 690

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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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