NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 RTX 2060 TU104 +98%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1536

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GK104

TU104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Turing

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

7.5

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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