GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GTX 970
Summary
GeForce GTX 690
113%
GeForce GTX 970
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 690 |
| Around 13% higher average synthetic performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970 |
| 152 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) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 690
The GeForce GTX 690 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 690 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 (GK104-355-A2) | vs | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 1664 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 13 |
| Core clock | 915 MHz | vs | 1050 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 56 |
| TMUs | 128 | vs | 104 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 690 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit x2 | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 690 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 300 watts | vs | 148 watts |
| Release Date | 3 May 2012 | vs | 19 Sep 2014 |
GeForce GTX 690
58.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 690
234.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 690
384.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 690
5622.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 690
17860
GeForce GTX 970
15750
Points (higher is better)