NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00

$ 110.98 significantly less expensive

$ 399.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

66% significantly better overall score

1233 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and the GeForce GTX 690? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

183.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

12549 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7870 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

15421 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15021 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7870 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

17576 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16675 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

67% significantly higher boost clock speed

1019 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

0.05% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

150% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

151% significantly higher pixel rate

32.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

130.40 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

25% slightly better floating point performance

3.13 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

1536

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

77% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

248th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 690 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the GeForce GTX 690 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 690 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB over the GeForce GTX 690.