GeForce GTX 690 vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 52 | 420 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | no data | 1.29 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 3.37 |
| Architecture | no data | Kepler (2012−2018) |
| GPU code name | no data | GK104 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop |
| Release date | 3 March 2026 (recently) | 3 May 2012 (13 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $999 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 40 | 3072 ×2 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 915 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1019 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 3,540 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | no data | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 300 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | no data | 130.4 ×2 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 3.13 TFLOPS ×2 |
| ROPs | no data | 32 ×2 |
| TMUs | no data | 128 ×2 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 128 KB |
| L2 Cache | no data | 512 KB |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | no data | PCI Express 3.0 |
| Interface | no data | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 279 mm |
| Height | no data | 4.376" (11.1 cm) |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | 2x 8-pin |
| SLI options | - | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | LPDDR5x-8533 | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 ×2 |
| Memory bus width | no data | 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) ×2 |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 1502 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 384 GB/s ×2 |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | no data | Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2 |
| Multi monitor support | no data | 4 displays |
| HDMI | - | Yes (via dongle) |
| HDCP | - | + |
| Maximum VGA resolution | no data | 2048x1536 |
| Audio input for HDMI | no data | Internal |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| 3D Blu-Ray | - | + |
| 3D Gaming | - | + |
| 3D Vision Live | - | + |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | no data | 12 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | no data | 5.1 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.2 |
| OpenCL | no data | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.1.126 |
| CUDA | - | + |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 101 | no data |
| 1440p | 57 | no data |
| 4K | 36 | no data |
Cost per frame, $
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 3 March 2026 | 3 May 2012 |
Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 13 years.
We couldn't decide between M5 Max 40-Core GPU and GeForce GTX 690. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU is a notebook graphics card while GeForce GTX 690 is a desktop one.
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