NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)
1200 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
+210%
3.25 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
1.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Sep 2011
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 400
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
1002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
7
1536
Shading Units
336
128
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
160W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GF114
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
