NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs ATI FireGL V3600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and ATI FireGL V3600 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 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 53% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 48.8x more texture fill rate: 234 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
  • 25.6x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 120
  • 43.5x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,130 gflops vs 144 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 256 MB
  • 6x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 30.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5516 vs 180
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 462 vs 399
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 May 2012 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed 915 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 234 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 1536 vs 120
Floating-point performance 2x 3,130 gflops vs 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5516 vs 180
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 vs 399

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V3600

  • 4.1x lower typical power consumption: 73 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1755 vs 1673
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1755 vs 1673
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 73 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1755 vs 1673
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1755 vs 1673

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5516
180
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
462
399
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1673
1755
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1673
1755
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 ATI FireGL V3600
PassMark - G3D Mark 5516 180
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 399
Geekbench - OpenCL 16608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 46.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 930.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 29.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 97.861
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6875
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1849
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1673 1755
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6875
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1849
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1673 1755
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 ATI FireGL V3600

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 RV630
Launch date 3 May 2012 28 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $299
Place in performance rating 746 747
Price now $999
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 7.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1019 MHz
Core clock speed 915 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 3072
Floating-point performance 2x 3,130 gflops 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 2x 1536 120
Texture fill rate 234 billion / sec 4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 73 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 390 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort, Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini... No outputs
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 11.0" (27.9 cm)
SLI options Quad
Supplementary power connectors Two 8-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 384 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA