GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 690
    120%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 690

Around 20% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 TITAN BLACK

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.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 690

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 690

The GeForce GTX 690 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-355-A2)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1536vs2880
Compute Units8vs15
Core clock915 MHzvs889 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
TDP300 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date3 May 2012vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    53.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    213.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    336.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    5121.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 690
    17860
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    14880

Points (higher is better)