GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GTX 690 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 970
9932
GeForce GTX 690
5738
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 690
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GM204
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
May 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
Two 8-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1019 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
915 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
3072
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
2x 3,130 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
300 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
234 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
6008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
384 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-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 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision Live
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-