NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1709MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +39%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GK104

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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