NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Lower TDP (195W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +3275%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

1536

680

TMUs

128

192

ROPs

32

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

88 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

195W

900 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

GB202

GPU Name

GK104

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

3.54 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

3.0

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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