GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1178MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
3250
GeForce GTX 970
+20%
3920
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 680
2004
GeForce GTX 970
+81%
3646
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
1664
128
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
56
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
148W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GM204
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
398 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
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
