NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 450 MHz
130x more texture fill rate: 234 billion / sec vs 1.8 GTexel / s
76.8x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 40
173.9x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,130 gflops vs 36 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 256 MB
7.5x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 800 MHz
57x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5590 vs 98
Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 465 vs 260

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 May 2012 vs 25 July 2008
Core clock speed	915 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	234 billion / sec vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1536 vs 40
Floating-point performance	2x 3,130 gflops vs 36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5590 vs 98
PassMark - G2D Mark	465 vs 260

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

25x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5590

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

465

260

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
PassMark - G3D Mark	5590	98
PassMark - G2D Mark	465	260
Geekbench - OpenCL	16270
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6875
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1849
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1673
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK104	M82
Launch date	3 May 2012	25 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$999
Place in performance rating	737	645
Price now	$999
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	7.01
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1019 MHz
Core clock speed	915 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	3072
Floating-point performance	2x 3,130 gflops	36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2x 1536	40
Texture fill rate	234 billion / sec	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	181 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	MXM-II
Length	11.0" (27.9 cm)
SLI options	Quad
Supplementary power connectors	Two 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.2	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	384 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	512-bit (256-bit per GPU)	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA