GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 690, which has clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 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

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 690 is 14% faster than the GeForce GTX Titan Black overall, because of its higher 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 a bit (approximately 10%) better at anisotropic filtering 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 should be a lot (about 37%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX Titan Black, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.