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

RTX A6000

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1800 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

6,987

N/A

geekbench_opencl

16,803

180,149

geekbench_vulkan

17,646

165,451

passmark_directx_10

N/A

155

passmark_directx_11

N/A

191

passmark_directx_12

N/A

87

passmark_directx_9

N/A

245

passmark_g2d

N/A

913

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,577

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,110

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 680

RTX A6000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

10,752 +600.0%

Shaders

1,536

10,752 +600.0%

TMUs

128

336 +162.5%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

SM Count

—

84

Clocks

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

48 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

49,152 +2300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

201.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.250 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

135.4 GFLOPS (1:24)

604.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

38.71 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

195 W

300 W

TDP (W)

195

300 +53.8%

Suggested PSU

450 W

700 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler

Ampere

GPU Name

GK104

GA102

Generation

GeForce 600

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

3,540 million

28,300 million

Die Size

294 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.0M / mm²

45.1M / 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

8.6

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

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

4,649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 500

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 700

Workstation Ada

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