NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs Intel HD Graphics 2000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and Intel HD Graphics 2000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 512x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 6
  • 613.7x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,130 gflops vs 10.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
  • 25.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5467 vs 213
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 471 vs 456
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1673 vs 1039
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1673 vs 1039
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 May 2012 vs 5 January 2011
Core clock speed 915 MHz vs 850 MHz
Pipelines 2x 1536 vs 6
Floating-point performance 2x 3,130 gflops vs 10.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5467 vs 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 471 vs 456
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1673 vs 1039
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1673 vs 1039

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 2000

  • Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 1019 MHz
  • 3.6x more texture fill rate: 850 MTexel / s vs 234 billion / sec
Boost clock speed 1150 MHz vs 1019 MHz
Texture fill rate 850 MTexel / s vs 234 billion / sec

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 2000

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5467
213
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
471
456
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1673
1039
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1673
1039
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Intel HD Graphics 2000
PassMark - G3D Mark 5467 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 471 456
Geekbench - OpenCL 16577
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 46.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 930.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 29.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 97.861
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6875
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1849
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1673 1039
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6875
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1849
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1673 1039
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Intel HD Graphics 2000

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Generation 6.0
Code name GK104 Sandy Bridge GT1
Launch date 3 May 2012 5 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Place in performance rating 717 718
Price now $999
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 7.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1019 MHz 1150 MHz
Core clock speed 915 MHz 850 MHz
CUDA cores 3072
Floating-point performance 2x 3,130 gflops 10.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 2x 1536 6
Texture fill rate 234 billion / sec 850 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 189 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort, Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini... No outputs
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 11.0" (27.9 cm)
SLI options Quad
Supplementary power connectors Two 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.2 3.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
Memory bandwidth 384 GB / s
Memory bus width 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) 64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 1

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA