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Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

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

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 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 4G 8837 points
Difference: 4274 (48%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 4G 190 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 110 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 690 will be 111% quicker than the Radeon R9 380 4G in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G 182400 MB/sec
Difference: 202112 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is a lot (approximately 116%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 380 4G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 125600 (116%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a lot (approximately 89%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 4G, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G 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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Geforce GTX 690

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 690 Radeon R9 380 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2012 June 2015
Code Name GK104 Antigua PRO
Memory 2048 MB (x2) 4096 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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface 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 higher the 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 are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 690

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Radeon R9 380 4G

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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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