GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2x 1536

1536

CUDA cores

3072

1536

Core clock speed

915 MHz

1046 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1085 MHz

Transistor count

3,540 million

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

230 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

n/d

98 °C

Texture fill rate

234 billion / sec

134 billion / sec

Floating-point performance

2x 3,130 gflops

3,333 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

11.0" (27.9 cm)

10.5" (26.7 cm)

Height

4.376" (11.1 cm)

Minimum recommended system power

n/d

600 Watt

Supplementary power connectors

Two 8-pin

One 8-pin and one 6-pin

SLI options

Quad

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5

2 GB

Memory bus width

512-bit (256-bit per GPU)

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

7012 MHz

Memory bandwidth

384 GB / s

224.3 GB / s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770.

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2

One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

4 displays

HDMI

Yes (via dongle)

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

G-SYNC support

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray

Blu Ray 3D

3D Gaming

3D Vision

PhysX

GPU Boost

3D Vision Live

CUDA

SLI

n/d

DirectX 11

n/d

FXAA

TXAA

Adaptive VSync

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.2

4.3

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

GTX 690 19.56

GTX 770 25.85 +32.2%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

GTX 690 13160 +61.5%

GTX 770 8150

Passmark

GTX 690 5393

GTX 770 6064 +12.4%

Rendering quality tests

GFXBench render quality

4541 +0%

GFXBench high precision render quality

4541 +0%

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

156 Mh/s +38.1%

113 Mh/s −38.1%

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

n/d

3.9 Mh/s

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 770 are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Wider memory bus (512 vs 256 bit)

Higher memory bandwidth (384 vs 224.3 GB/s)

GPU Boost

DirectX 11

SLI (Scalable Link Interface - a technology for uniting several NVIDIA GPUs processing power in one PC)

Blu-Ray 3D

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

32.2% faster in synthetic tests

Much newer (30 May 2013 vs 3 May 2012)

Cheaper ($399 vs $999)

Less power hungry (230 vs 300 watts)

GPU Boost 2.0 (increases NVIDIA GPU voltage and frequency when there's a temperature headroom. Similar to AMD PowerTune)

SHIELD-ready

SLI-ready

BluRay3D

NVIDIAPhysXTechnology

So, GTX 690 or 770?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, Technical City recommends NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770.

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