GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce GTX 690

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Oct 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

175 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.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1660 SUPER

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GTX 690
GPU NameTU116 (TU116-300-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-355-A2)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1408vs1536
Compute Units22vs8
Core clock1530 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs88vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GTX 690
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GTX 690
TDP125 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date29 Oct 2019vs3 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    85.68 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    157.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    5020.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better