NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1770MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (60W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

A2 +44%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

A2

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Nov 2021

GeForce 600

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

1536

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

60W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA107

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

Unknown

294 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA TITAN V CEO Edition

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA CMP 100HX-210

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon R7 370

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA TITAN RTX

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early