NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs ATI Radeon HD 4770

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and ATI Radeon HD 4770 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 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 750 MHz
  • 9.8x more texture fill rate: 234 billion / sec vs 24 GTexel / s
  • 4.8x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 640
  • 6.5x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,130 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 512 MB
  • Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 3200 MHz
  • 6.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5518 vs 910
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 462 vs 114
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 May 2012 vs 28 April 2009
Core clock speed 915 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate 234 billion / sec vs 24 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 1536 vs 640
Floating-point performance 2x 3,130 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 3200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5518 vs 910
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 vs 114

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4770

  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • 5.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 8618 vs 1673
  • 5.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 8618 vs 1673
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8618 vs 1673
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8618 vs 1673

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4770

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5518
910
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
462
114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1673
8618
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1673
8618
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 ATI Radeon HD 4770
PassMark - G3D Mark 5518 910
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 114
Geekbench - OpenCL 16675
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 8618
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6875
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1849
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1673 8618
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 ATI Radeon HD 4770

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 RV740
Launch date 3 May 2012 28 April 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $109
Place in performance rating 750 753
Price now $999
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 7.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1019 MHz
Core clock speed 915 MHz 750 MHz
CUDA cores 3072
Floating-point performance 2x 3,130 gflops 960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2x 1536 640
Texture fill rate 234 billion / sec 24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 826 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... 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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 2.0 x16
Length 11.0" (27.9 cm) 203 mm
SLI options Quad
Supplementary power connectors Two 8-pin 1x 6-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 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 384 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

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