NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 690

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

NV42

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Kepler

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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