GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GK104
GF116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
March 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
-
Core clock speed
915 MHz
783 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
-
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
192
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
25.06
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
1 GB
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
3608 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
57.73 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
Yes (via dongle)
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-