NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1785MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +54%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

1536

88

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

195W

300 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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GK104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Turing

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

284 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

7.5

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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