NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 690 sales 3 May 2012 at a recommended price of $999 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Kepler architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.3 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 279 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 690: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	336
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.01
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GK104
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	3 May 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 690's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 690's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	915 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1019 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	3,540 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	130.4	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	2x 3,130 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 690 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	279 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 690: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	192.3 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 690. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 690, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126
CUDA	3.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 690. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 690 14.43

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GTX 690 5571

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 690 13160

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GTX 690 18772

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 6%

GTX 690 14979

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 690 12263

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 690 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 690's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.

GeForce GTX 770 106.31

Radeon R9 280X 104.78

Radeon RX 6300 103.05

GeForce GTX 690 100

Radeon HD 7990 99.93

Radeon R9 280 99.79

GeForce GTX 680 99.72

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 690 is Radeon HD 7990, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.