NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 399.98

$ 229.99

$ 169.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1233 points

3468 points

181% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

82 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

41 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

59 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

31 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

183.97 points

1484.67 points

707% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

12549 points

72998 points

481% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15421 points

71667 points

364% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15021 points

56109 points

273% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17576 points

63483 points

261% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16675 points

62406 points

274% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

915 MHz

1552 MHz

69% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1019 MHz

1777 MHz

74% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

130 W

130% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32.61 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

74% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

130.40 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.13 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

190% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2560

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

248th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 690 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly 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 RTX 3050 also has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 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 RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 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 RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce GTX 690.