GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 690

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    138%
  • GeForce GTX 690
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

150 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.
Around 38% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1070

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

The GeForce GTX 1070 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 690
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-355-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1920vs1536
Compute Units15vs8
Core clock1506 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs120vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 690
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 690
TDP150 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs3 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    24720
  • GeForce GTX 690
    17860

Points (higher is better)