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GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1470 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 2176 SPUs along with 136 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 690, which has core 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 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super 175 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 125 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Geforce GTX 690 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super 458752 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
Difference: 74240 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be a small bit (about 17%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 2060 Super. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060 Super 199920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 34320 (17%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super should be a lot (approximately 61%) better at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 690, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super 94080 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 35520 (61%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 2060 Super Geforce GTX 690
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2019 April 2012
Code Name TU106-410-A1 GK104
Memory 8192 MB 2048 MB (x2)
Core Speed 1470 MHz 915 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 6008 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 175 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 458752 MB/sec 384512 MB/sec
Texel Rate 199920 Mtexels/sec 234240 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 94080 Mpixels/sec 58560 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2176 1536 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 136 128 (x2)
Render Output Units 64 32 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 10800 million 3540 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 2060 Super

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