GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5070 Advantages
Released 11 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 137% (2512MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition Advantages
Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+849%
30870
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
1006 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
1536
192
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
48 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
195W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
GK104
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.1
10.1
CUDA
3.0
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
