NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1178MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +25%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

1664

128

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

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3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

148W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GM204

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

398 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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