GeForce GTX 690: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 690 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 12.41% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

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. 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 384 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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 the ranking412
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.23
Power efficiency3.33of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK104
Market segmentDesktop
Release date3 May 2012 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores3072 ×2of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed915 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1019 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors3,540 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate130.4 ×2of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power3.13 TFLOPS ×2of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs32 ×2of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs128 ×2of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache128 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache512 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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).

Bus supportPCI Express 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mm
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin
SLI options+

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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 ×2of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width512-bit (256-bit per GPU) ×2of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1502 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth384 GB/s ×2of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

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 ConnectorsTwo Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
Multi monitor support4 displays
HDMIYes (via dongle)
HDCP+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIInternal

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 690. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray+
3D Gaming+
3D Vision Live+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.2of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA+

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 score.

GTX 690
12.41

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

GTX 690 5486
Samples: 1215

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.

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.

GTX 690 17576

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

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 Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

GTX 690 14979

GeekBench 5 CUDA

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 CUDA API by NVIDIA.

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.


Radeon R9 280 100.89
Radeon 760M 100.16
GeForce GTX 690 100
Arc A310 99.11

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 690 is Radeon 760M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 690:

Radeon R9 280 100.89
Radeon 760M 100.16
GeForce GTX 690 100

Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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