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 RTX 3070

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1725 MHz

TDP 220 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

16,480

123,479

geekbench_vulkan

14,979

120,664

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,162

passmark_directx_10

N/A

150

passmark_directx_11

N/A

182

passmark_directx_12

N/A

85

passmark_directx_9

N/A

247

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,001

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,214

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

11,195

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 690

RTX 3070

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

5,888 +283.3%

Shaders

1,536

5,888 +283.3%

TMUs

128

184 +43.8%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

SM Count

—

46

Clocks

Base Clock

915 MHz

1500 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1725 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

165.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.130 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

130.4 GFLOPS (1:24)

317.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

20.31 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

46

Tensor Cores

—

184

Power

TDP

300 W

220 W

TDP (W)

300

220 -26.7%

Suggested PSU

700 W

550 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler

Ampere

GPU Name

GK104

GA104

Generation

GeForce 600

GeForce 30

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

3,540 million

17,400 million

Die Size

294 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.0M / mm²

44.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

3.0

8.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

279 mm 11 inches

242 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

999 USD

499 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 500

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

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