GeForce GTX 1060 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 690, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1502 MHz on this model. It features 1536 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units 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 1060		12359 points
	Difference: 752 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 690 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 187904 (96%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be much (approximately 94%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 113760 (94%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13728 (23%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.