NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1852MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +354%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA106

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

12 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

185W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

6.7

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