NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1178MHz vs 1058MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +34%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 680

1999

GeForce GTX 960 +14%

2283

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GM206

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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