GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 690
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    137%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

50 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 37% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-355-A2)vsGM200 (GM200-310-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders1536vs2816
Compute Units8vs22
Core clock915 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs96
TMUs128vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX 980 Ti
TDP300 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date3 May 2012vs2 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 690
    17860
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    24560

Points (higher is better)