NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Price

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$ 399.98

$ 8.98 slightly less expensive

$ 408.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1233 points

1799 points

45% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

37 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

26 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

26 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

22 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

183.97 points

311.05 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

12549 points

18049 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7870 points

9797 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15421 points

21004 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15021 points

21940 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7870 points

10316 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17576 points

23273 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16675 points

24865 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

915 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1019 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

250 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32.61 Gigapixels/s

43.3 Gigapixels/s

32% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

130.40 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.13 TFLOPS

4.16 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2304

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

192

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

255th of 597

224th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2013 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 690 vs GeForce GTX 780 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 780 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 690 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 690 has a slightly 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 690 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 780 has significantly more memory with 6 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 780 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 780 over the GeForce GTX 690.