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Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

The Geforce GTX 690 makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this specific card. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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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 R9 380 2G 8850 points
Difference: 4261 (48%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 2G 190 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 110 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 690 should be much faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 182400 MB/sec
Difference: 202112 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is much (approximately 116%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 125600 (116%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G 31040 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 27520 (89%)

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 R9 380 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2012 June 2015
Code Name GK104 Antigua PRO
Memory 2048 MB (x2) 2048 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz (x2) 970 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz (x2) 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 384512 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 234240 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 58560 Mpixels/sec 31040 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) 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3540 million 5000 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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 690

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