GeForce RTX 2060 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 690, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this specific card. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 690 should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 40448 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a lot (more or less 43%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 70440 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is a small bit (approximately 12%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 690, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6960 (12%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 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 number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.