NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1455MHz vs 1058MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +74%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 680 +11%

1999

GeForce GTX 1050

1789

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

1536

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GP107

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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