GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GK104
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
October 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
915 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
-
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
6 GB
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
Yes (via dongle)
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-