GeForce GTX 690: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 690 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 13.69% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090.
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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 ranking | 397 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 1.42 | |
| Power efficiency | 3.23 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK104 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 3 May 2012 (13 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
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 cores | 3072 ×2 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 915 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1019 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 3,540 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 130.4 ×2 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 3.13 TFLOPS ×2 | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 ×2 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 128 ×2 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
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 support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 279 mm | |
| Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 ×2 | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) ×2 | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1502 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 384 GB/s ×2 | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
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 | Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2 | |
| Multi monitor support | 4 displays | |
| HDMI | Yes (via dongle) | |
| HDCP | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | Internal |
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 compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 690, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.2 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 690 is Radeon R9 280, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 690 according to our statistics.
