GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 690

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 690
    102%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

180 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 690
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-355-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1280vs1536
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock1506 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 690
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 690
TDP120 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs3 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • GeForce GTX 690
    17860

Points (higher is better)