NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 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

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$ 1253.25

$ 399.98

$ 853.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

1233 points

98% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

19 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.30 points

0.18% slightly higher Blender score

183.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11969 points

12549 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7421 points

7870 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14780 points

15421 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14358 points

15021 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

6454 points

7870 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15314 points

17576 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16269 points

16675 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

915 MHz

Identical

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

980 MHz

1019 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% 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

192.3 GB/s

Identical

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

76% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

27.44 Gigapixels/s

32.61 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

109.8 Gigatexels/s

130.40 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.63 TFLOPS

3.13 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1344

1536

14% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

308th of 586

249th 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

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 670 vs GeForce GTX 690 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 690 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 670 in gaming.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the GeForce GTX 670 and the GeForce GTX 690 have the same base clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 690 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 670 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 670 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 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 690 is better than the GeForce GTX 670.