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GeForce GTX 970 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

The GeForce GTX 970 has a GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1664 Stream Processors, 104 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 690, which has clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 970 10867 points
Difference: 2244 (21%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970 145 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 155 Watts (107%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 690 should in theory be much faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970 224000 MB/sec
Difference: 160512 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be a lot (more or less 115%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970 109200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 125040 (115%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be just a bit (more or less 15%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 690, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 67200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8640 (15%)

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

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GeForce GTX 970

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 970 Geforce GTX 690
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year September 2014 April 2012
Code Name GM204-200 GK104
Memory 4096 MB 2048 MB (x2)
Core Speed 1050 MHz 915 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 6008 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 384512 MB/sec
Texel Rate 109200 Mtexels/sec 234240 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 67200 Mpixels/sec 58560 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1664 1536 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 104 128 (x2)
Render Output Units 64 32 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5200 million 3540 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 970

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