GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon R9 390X

GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon R9 390X
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 390X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 690
    100%
  • Radeon R9 390X
    105%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 690

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 390X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 5% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 390X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 390X

The Radeon R9 390X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 690Radeon R9 390X
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-355-A2)vsGrenada (Grenada XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders1536vs2816
Compute Units8vs44
Core clock915 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs128vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 690Radeon R9 390X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs512 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 690Radeon R9 390X
TDP300 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date3 May 2012vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390X
    67.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390X
    184.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390X
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390X
    5914.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 690
    17860
  • Radeon R9 390X
    18860

Points (higher is better)