NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1683MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +98%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Dec 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

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

1536

120

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GK104

GP104-200-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

Board Design

150W

TDP

195W

450 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 8-pin

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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