NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1665MHz vs 1019MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+417%
16.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 690
3.13 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
May 2012
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
915 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1019 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
1536
152
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.61 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
130.4 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.130 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
130.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GK104
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GK104-355-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.6
CUDA
3.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
