GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 690, which comes with a clock speed of 915 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1536 SPUs, 128 TAUs, 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 14% quicker than the GeForce GTX Titan Black in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be just a bit (approximately 10%) better 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

The Geforce GTX 690 is quite a bit (about 37%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX Titan Black, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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 reach the maximum fill rate.