NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1424 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +867%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce 9800 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jul 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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

112

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G92B

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

G92-280-B1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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