NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1777MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +307%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK104

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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