NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1695MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +33%

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 600

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

1536

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA107

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

Unknown

294 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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