NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1683MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +98%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

1536

Shading Units

1920

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GP104

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

314 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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