NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and AMD Radeon HD 6970M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• Around 35% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 680 MHz
• 7.2x more texture fill rate: 234 billion / sec vs 32.6 GTexel / s
• 3.2x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 960
• 4.8x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,130 gflops vs 1,305.6 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 1 GB
• Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 3600 MHz
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5590 vs 2270
• 4.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 16270 vs 3349
• 9.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 46.352 vs 4.787
• Around 51% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 930.114 vs 617.819
• 3.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.656 vs 0.927
• Around 22% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 29.836 vs 24.456

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M

• 4x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 300 Watt
• Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 465
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 117.801 vs 97.861
• Around 75% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3229 vs 1849
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3342 vs 1673
• Around 75% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3229 vs 1849
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3342 vs 1673

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	5590 2270
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	465 656
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	16270 3349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	46.352 4.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	930.114 617.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.656 0.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	29.836 24.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	97.861 117.801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1849 3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1673 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1849 3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1673 3342

Compare specifications (specs)