GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce GTX 690 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
GeForce GTX 690
5738
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GeForce GTX 690
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GP106
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
May 2012
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
Two 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
1019 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
915 MHz
CUDA cores
-
3072
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
2x 3,130 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
234 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
Memory bus width
192 Bit
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
6008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
384 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
HDMI
+
Yes (via dongle)
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
6.1
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision Live
-
+
VR Ready
+
-