NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 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 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1518MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +39%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GK104

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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