NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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 1660 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1785MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +60%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

1536

88

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GK104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

Turing

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

7.5

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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