NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.3x more boost clock speed: 1019 MHz vs 450 MHz
43.3x more texture fill rate: 234 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
256x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 512 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
37.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5572 vs 148
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 469 vs 232

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 May 2012 vs 1 August 2006
Core clock speed	915 MHz vs 450 MHz
Boost clock speed	1019 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	234 billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1536 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5 vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5572 vs 148
PassMark - G2D Mark	469 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5572

148

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

469

232

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
PassMark - G3D Mark	5572	148
PassMark - G2D Mark	469	232
Geekbench - OpenCL	16684
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 Go 7700
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Curie
Code name	GK104	G73
Launch date	3 May 2012	1 August 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$999
Place in performance rating	746	748
Price now	$999
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	7.01
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1019 MHz	450 MHz
Core clock speed	915 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	3072
Floating-point performance	2x 3,130 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2x 1536	12
Texture fill rate	234 billion / sec	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	177 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
Laptop size		medium sized
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	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	384 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	512-bit (256-bit per GPU)	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	128
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA