GeForce GTX 680 vs RTX A5000 8Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Lower TDP (195W vs 230W)
RTX A5000 8Q 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1695MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
6656 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
3250
RTX A5000 8Q
+754%
27770
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 600
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1170 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
64
1536
Shading Units
8192
128
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
230W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA102
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
