NVIDIA RTX A1000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1462MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A1000 +107%

6.737 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

RTX A1000

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Mar 2012

Quadro Ampere

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

727 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1462 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

105.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

6.737 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.737 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

105.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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