GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce GTX 690

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Dec 2020
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

100 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.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce GTX 690
GPU NameGA104 (GA104-200-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-355-A2)
Fab Process8 nmvs28 nm
Die Size392 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors17,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders4864vs1536
Compute Units38vs8
Core clock1410 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs80vs32
TMUs152vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce GTX 690
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce GTX 690
TDP200 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date1 Dec 2020vs3 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    133.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    253.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    448.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    16200.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better