GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce GTX 960
GeForce GTX 690
5738
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 960
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GK104
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
January 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 6-pins
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
915 MHz
1127 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
1024
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
72 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
4 GB
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
4 displays
4 displays
HDMI
Yes (via dongle)
+
HDCP
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0