GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GTX 660
GeForce GTX 690
5738
GeForce GTX 660
4119
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 660
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GK104
GK106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
September 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
One 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
1033 MHz
Core clock speed
915 MHz
980 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
960
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
1,981 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
960
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
78.4 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
2 GB
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
6.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
144.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
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
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.3
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
+
+
3D Gaming
+
+
3D Vision
-
+
3D Vision Live
+
-