NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M +961%

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 600M

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

-

758 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

1344

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G94

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

N10E-GS1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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