NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2012
Jan 2018
Generation
GeForce 600
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
915 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1019 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
2002 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
192.2GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1536
1280
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
10

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.61 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
130.4 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.130 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
130.4 GFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
68.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GK104
GP106
GPU Variant
GK104-355-A2
GP106-400-A1
Architecture
Kepler
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
4.4 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
120W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.1
1.3
CUDA
3.0
6.1
Shader Model
5.1
6.4