GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 690
5738
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 590
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GK104
GF110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
March 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
Two 8-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
-
Core clock speed
915 MHz
607 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
1024
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
2x 1,244.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
365 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
77.7 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
1707 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
327.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
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
+
-