GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (182W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
+581%
3250
GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
477
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 200
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
999 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
24
1536
Shading Units
192
128
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
28
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
182W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GT200B
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
G200-103-B3
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
