NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +746%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

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GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

197W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GK104

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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