NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1296 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690 +403%

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

1536

Shading Units

240

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

236W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GT200

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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