NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +201%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

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GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GF100

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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