GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 May 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 690

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN Z .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Z

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX TITAN Z

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX TITAN Z
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 MHzvs705 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 690GeForce GTX TITAN Z
TDP300 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date3 May 2012vs28 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    338.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    672.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    8122.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better