NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Lower TDP (195W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 138% (2520MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

20224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +3275%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

170

1536

Shading Units

21760

128

TMUs

680

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GB202

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

Unknown

294 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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