NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

69% significantly better overall score

1233 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

178% significantly higher Blender score

183.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

38193 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

12549 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

15421 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15021 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

17576 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16675 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

1019 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

233% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

170% significantly higher pixel rate

32.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

130.40 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

80% significantly better floating point performance

3.13 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

33% slightly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

203rd of 586

248th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 690 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 690 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 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 1070 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 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 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 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 1070 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 690.