NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1733MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +183%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

1536

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

180W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GP104

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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