GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce RTX 2070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1620MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
GeForce RTX 2070
+129%
7465
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Oct 2018
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1620 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
36
1536
Shading Units
2304
128
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
288
-
RT Cores
36
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
103.7 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
233.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
14.93 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.465 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
233.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
175W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
TU106
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
TU106-400A-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
10.8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
445 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
