NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 143% (2475MHz vs 1019MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070
+831%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 690
3.13 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2023
Release Date
May 2012
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
915 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1019 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
504.2GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
1536
184
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
36 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.61 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
130.4 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.130 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
130.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
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 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GK104
AD104-250-A1
GPU Variant
GK104-355-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
295 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
8.9
CUDA
3.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
