GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1019 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

16,480

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

14,979

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 690

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

1,664 +8.3%

Shaders

1,536

1,664 +8.3%

TMUs

128

104 -18.8%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

915 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.130 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

130.4 GFLOPS (1:24)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

300 W

148 W

TDP (W)

300

148 -50.7%

Suggested PSU

700 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GK104

GM204

Generation

GeForce 600

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,540 million

5,200 million

Die Size

294 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.0M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

3.0

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

279 mm 11 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

999 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 500

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 700

GeForce 10

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