RTX A2000 vs Radeon HD 6690G2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated136
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data85.86
Power efficiencyno data35.21
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataGA106
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date14 June 2011 (13 years ago)10 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449

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 cores8803328
Core clock speedno data562 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistorsno data12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data70 Watt
Texture fill rateno data124.8
Floating-point processing powerno data7.987 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data104
Tensor Coresno data104
Ray Tracing Coresno data26

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 4.0 x16
Lengthno data167 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data288.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 data4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2011 10 August 2021
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm

RTX A2000 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6690G2 and RTX A2000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6690G2 is a notebook card while RTX A2000 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6690G2
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