NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1680MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +98%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

1536

Shading Units

1920

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

TU104

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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