GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 690 vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GTX 690
5738
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce GTX 690
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GK104
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
January 2021
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
915 MHz
1320 MHz
CUDA cores
3072
-
Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
12 GB
Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
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 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-