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Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

The Geforce GTX 690 has a GPU core speed of 915 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1502 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1536 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 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 RX 570 12108 points
Difference: 1003 (8%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570 150 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 690 should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 570 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is a lot (more or less 57%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 570. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 570 149504 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 84736 (57%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is superior to the Radeon RX 570, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570 37376 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21184 (57%)

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 RX 570
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2012 April 2017
Code Name GK104 Polaris 20
Memory 2048 MB (x2) 4096 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz (x2) 1168 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz (x2) 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 384512 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 234240 Mtexels/sec 149504 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 58560 Mpixels/sec 37376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 (x2) 2048
Texture Mapping Units 128 (x2) 128
Render Output Units 32 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 3540 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could 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 ROPs by the clock 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 690

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Radeon RX 570

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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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