NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 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 3470

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 35% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 680 MHz
86x more texture fill rate: 234 billion / sec vs 2.72 GTexel / s
76.8x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 40
115.1x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,130 gflops vs 54.4 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
58.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5467 vs 93
Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 471 vs 250

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 May 2012 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed	915 MHz vs 680 MHz
Texture fill rate	234 billion / sec vs 2.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1536 vs 40
Floating-point performance	2x 3,130 gflops vs 54.4 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	5467 vs 93
PassMark - G2D Mark	471 vs 250

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

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 3470

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5467

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

471

250

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
PassMark - G3D Mark	5467	93
PassMark - G2D Mark	471	250
Geekbench - OpenCL	16577
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 3470
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK104	M82
Launch date	3 May 2012	7 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$999
Place in performance rating	717	719
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	680 MHz
CUDA cores	3072
Floating-point performance	2x 3,130 gflops	54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2x 1536	40
Texture fill rate	234 billion / sec	2.72 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	DDR2 / GDDR3
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