GRID K100 vs Radeon HD 6690G2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameno dataGK107
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date14 June 2011 (13 years ago)28 June 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$63

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 cores880192
Core clock speedno data850 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data130 Watt
Texture fill rateno data13.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3264 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot

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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data891 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.51 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2011 28 June 2013
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

GRID K100 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6690G2 and GRID K100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6690G2 is a notebook card while GRID K100 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6690G2
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