Radeon Sky 700 vs GeForce GTX 690

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking362not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.45no data
Power efficiency3.31no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK104Tahiti
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date3 May 2012 (12 years ago)27 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores30721792
Core clock speed915 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1019 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,540 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate130.4100.8
Floating-point processing power3.13 TFLOPS3.226 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs128112

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCI Express 3.0PCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mm267 mm
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slot2-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 8-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR56 GB
Memory bus width512-bit (256-bit per GPU)384 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth384 GB/s176 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsTwo Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.21x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support4 displaysno data
HDMIYes (via dongle)-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
DisplayPort countno data1
Dual-link DVI support-+
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray+-
3D Gaming+-
3D Vision Live+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.24.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 May 2012 27 March 2013
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 225 Watt

Sky 700 has an age advantage of 10 months, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 690 and Radeon Sky 700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 690 is a desktop card while Radeon Sky 700 is a workstation one.


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