NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1582MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +248%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +395%

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GeForce GTX 680

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

256bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

224

TMUs

128

88

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

0 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

GK104

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

195W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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