NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

NVIDIA A2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1770MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (60W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +39%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

A2

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Mar 2012

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

3.54 billion

Unknown

Die Size

294 mm²

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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