NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1528 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
+16150%
3.25 TFLOPS
GeForce 9300 GE
0.02 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 9
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
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
1
1536
Shading Units
8
128
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.160 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.80 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G98
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
G98-700-U2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
80 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
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
