NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Lower TDP (195W vs 200W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 134% (2475MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
3.25 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+796%
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
46
1536
Shading Units
5888
128
TMUs
184
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
200W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
AD104
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
