NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3 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

1233 points

2374 points

92% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

51 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

34 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

35 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

27 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

183.97 points

344.38 points

87% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

12549 points

20877 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7870 points

12375 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15421 points

25535 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15021 points

27453 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7870 points

18144 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17576 points

28485 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16675 points

27238 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

915 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1019 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

928 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

3 GiB

49% 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

336.6 GB/s

75% 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

55.68 Gigapixels/s

70% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

130.40 Gigatexels/s

222.7 Gigatexels/s

70% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.13 TFLOPS

5.34 TFLOPS

70% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2880

87% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

240

87% 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

248th of 586

185th 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 690 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 690 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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. 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 780 Ti has significantly more memory with 3 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 780 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 690 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 780 Ti over the GeForce GTX 690.