GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 690, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 1536 SPUs along with 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 Black		11666 points
	Difference: 1445 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 690 should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX Titan Black overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48512 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be just a bit (more or less 10%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX Titan Black. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20880 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15888 (37%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.