NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00

$ 64.98 slightly less expensive

$ 399.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

68% significantly better overall score

1233 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

101% significantly higher Blender score

183.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

12549 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7870 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

15421 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15021 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7870 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

17576 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16675 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

86% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

150% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

248th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 690 specs and performance

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

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the GeForce GTX 690.