GeForce GTX Titan vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 690, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this specific card. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 690		13111 points
GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
	Difference: 2949 (29%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 690 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX Titan in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
	Difference: 96128 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is a lot (approximately 25%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX Titan. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46752 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is a lot (about 46%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX Titan, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18384 (46%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.