NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 and AMD Radeon HD 7690M 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 960

AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 725 MHz
Around 62% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 725 MHz
4.1x more texture fill rate: 72 billion / sec vs 17.4 GTexel / s
2.1x more pipelines: 1024 vs 480
3.5x better floating-point performance: 2,413 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6098 vs 909
Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 673 vs 454
15x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18636 vs 1242

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 January 2015 vs 25 December 2011
Core clock speed	1127 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	72 billion / sec vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 480
Floating-point performance	2,413 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6098 vs 909
PassMark - G2D Mark	673 vs 454
Geekbench - OpenCL	18636 vs 1242

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

6x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 120 Watt
257.1x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6098

909

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

673

454

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

18636

1242

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
PassMark - G3D Mark	6098	909
PassMark - G2D Mark	673	454
Geekbench - OpenCL	18636	1242
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2286

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM206	Thames
Launch date	22 January 2015	25 December 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$199
Place in performance rating	500	501
Price now	$229.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	34.63
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz	725 MHz
Core clock speed	1127 MHz	725 MHz
CUDA cores	1024
Floating-point performance	2,413 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1024	480
Texture fill rate	72 billion / sec	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	2,940 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDCP
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-A (3.0)
Length	9.5" (24.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
SLI options	2x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pins	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost