NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 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 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1709MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +34%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Oct 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

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

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Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

195W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GK104

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

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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