NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1695MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +1036%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

82

SM Count

-

10496

Shading Units

1536

328

TMUs

128

112

ROPs

32

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

300W

750 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

GA102

GPU Name

GK104

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

628 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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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