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 RTX 5050

CORE STATE GB207

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2572 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

6,987

N/A

geekbench_opencl

16,803

93,892

geekbench_vulkan

17,646

89,381

passmark_directx_10

N/A

103

passmark_directx_11

N/A

150

passmark_directx_12

N/A

66

passmark_directx_9

N/A

186

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,113

passmark_g3d

N/A

17,326

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,184

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 680

RTX 5050

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

2,560 +66.7%

Shaders

1,536

2,560 +66.7%

TMUs

128

80 -37.5%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

SM Count

—

20

Clocks

Base Clock

1006 MHz

2317 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

2572 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

2500 MHz 20 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

320.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

24 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

82.30 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

205.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.250 TFLOPS

13.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

135.4 GFLOPS (1:24)

205.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

13.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

20

Tensor Cores

—

80

Power

TDP

195 W

130 W

TDP (W)

195

130 -33.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GK104

GB207

Generation

GeForce 600

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

3,540 million

16,900 million

Die Size

294 mm²

149 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.0M / mm²

113.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

3.0

12.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

256 mm 10.1 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

249 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 500

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 700

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