NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

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

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

14848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Lower TDP (195W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +2440%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +1725%

36499

GeForce GTX 680

1999

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

128

SM Count

-

16384

Shading Units

1536

512

TMUs

128

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

72 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

195W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GK104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

609 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

8.9

CUDA

3.0

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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