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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
+
-