NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +581%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 200

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

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

128

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GK104

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

576 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

1.3

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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