NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (967MHz vs 758MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +27%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 600M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1344

Shading Units

1344

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

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2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GK104

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.1

3.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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