NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 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 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 220.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5518 vs 25
  • Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 462 vs 234
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 May 2012 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed 915 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5518 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 vs 234

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5518
25
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
462
234
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
PassMark - G3D Mark 5518 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 234
Geekbench - OpenCL 16675
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6875
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1849
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1673
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Curie
Code name GK104 C61
Launch date 3 May 2012 11 October 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Place in performance rating 750 747
Price now $999
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 7.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1019 MHz
Core clock speed 915 MHz 425 MHz
CUDA cores 3072
Floating-point performance 2x 3,130 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2x 1536
Texture fill rate 234 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 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 PCI
Length 11.0" (27.9 cm)
SLI options Quad
Supplementary power connectors Two 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.2 2.1

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)
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

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