NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 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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$ 519.99

$ 399.98

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

2% slightly better overall score

1233 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

Identical

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

183.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

12549 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8002 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7870 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

15421 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15021 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7720 points

7870 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

17576 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16675 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1019 MHz

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

195 W

53% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

32.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

3% slightly higher texture rate

130.40 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

3.13 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

Identical

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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

248th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

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 680 vs GeForce GTX 690 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 690 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 680 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly 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 680 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 680 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 680 has a significantly lower TDP at 195 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 690 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 690 is better than the GeForce GTX 680.