NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 195W)

Score

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

108W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G70

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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