NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points
1233 points
51% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS
28 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
17 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS
19 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
14 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points
183.97 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points
12549 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

5449 points
7870 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points
15421 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points
15021 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4311 points
7870 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points
17576 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points
16675 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz
7% slightly higher core clock speed
915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1032 MHz
1% slightly higher boost clock speed
1019 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB
49% significantly more memory
2 GiB

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

144.2 GB/s
192.3 GB/s
33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W
114% significantly lower TDP
300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s
32.61 Gigapixels/s
57% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s
130.40 Gigatexels/s
57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS
3.13 TFLOPS
58% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960
1536
60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
128
60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

24
32
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

279th of 590
251st of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

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