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GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1379MHz vs 1058MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 +206%
3250
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 680 +214%
2004
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638

Graphics Card

Mar 2012
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s

Render Config

-
SM Count
3
1536
Shading Units
384
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W
TDP
20W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GK104
GPU Name
GP108
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
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