GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon R9 380X

GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon R9 380X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2015
Radeon R9 380X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 690
    133%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 690

Around 33% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380X

110 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 690 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 690

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 690

The GeForce GTX 690 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 690Radeon R9 380X
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-355-A2)vsAntigua (Antigua XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders1536vs2048
Compute Units8vs32
Core clock915 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 690Radeon R9 380X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 690Radeon R9 380X
TDP300 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date3 May 2012vs19 Nov 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    124.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    182.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380X
    3973.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 690
    17860
  • Radeon R9 380X
    13410

Points (higher is better)