
GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GT 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GT 520
GeForce GTX 690
5738
GeForce GT 520
318
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GT 520
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GK104
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
April 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
-
Core clock speed
915 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
48
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
48
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
102 °C
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support
4 displays
+
HDMI
Yes (via dongle)
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-