GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GTX 980

GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 980
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 980

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 690
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    104%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX 980
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-355-A2)vsGM204 (GM204-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders1536vs2048
Compute Units8vs16
Core clock915 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX 980
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX 980
TDP300 wattsvs165 watts
Release Date3 May 2012vs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980
    72.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980
    144.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980
    4616.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 690
    17860
  • GeForce GTX 980
    18720

Points (higher is better)