GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1058 MHz

TDP 195 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

6,987

15,163

geekbench_opencl

16,803

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

17,646

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 680

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

2,048 +33.3%

Shaders

1,536

2,048 +33.3%

TMUs

128

128 0.0%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.250 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

135.4 GFLOPS (1:24)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

195 W

165 W

TDP (W)

195

165 -15.4%

Suggested PSU

450 W

450 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GK104

GM204

Generation

GeForce 600

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,540 million

5,200 million

Die Size

294 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.0M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

3.0

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

256 mm 10.1 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 500

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 700

GeForce 10

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