GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 690

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

225 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 690 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 690

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 690

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 690

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 690
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-355-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders768vs1536
Compute Units6vs8
Core clock1290 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs48vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 690
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 690
TDP75 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs3 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better