GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon HD 7990
Summary
GeForce GTX 690
100%
Radeon HD 7990
103%
Relative performance
GeForce GTX 690
100%
Radeon HD 7990
109%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 690 |
| 75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7990 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7990 |
| 9% higher gaming performance. |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990
The Radeon HD 7990 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (5 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 690 | | Radeon HD 7990 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 (GK104-355-A2) | vs | Malta () |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 365 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 915 MHz | vs | 950 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 128 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 690 | | Radeon HD 7990 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit x2 | vs | 384 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 690 | | Radeon HD 7990 | |
|---|
| TDP | 300 watts | vs | 375 watts |
| Release Date | 3 May 2012 | vs | 24 Apr 2013 |
GeForce GTX 690
58.60 GP/s
Radeon HD 7990
60.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 690
234.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 7990
244.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 690
384.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7990
576.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 690
5622.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7990
7782.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 690
17860
Radeon HD 7990
18530
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO
GeForce GTX 690
98
Radeon HD 7990
128
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA
GeForce GTX 690
118
Radeon HD 7990
122
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
GeForce GTX 690
78
Radeon HD 7990
79
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF
GeForce GTX 690
72
Radeon HD 7990
79
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
GeForce GTX 690
68
Radeon HD 7990
71
FPS (higher is better)