NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +178%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

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GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

1536

60

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GK104

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

195W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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