Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2016 Mar 2012
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 600
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1506 MHz 1006 MHz
Boost Clock 1683 MHz 1058 MHz
Memory Clock 2002 MHz 1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 256.3GB/s 192.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 15
Shading Units 1920 1536
TMUs 120 128
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 107.7 GPixel/s 33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 202.0 GTexel/s 135.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 101.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float) 6.463 TFLOPS 3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 202.0 GFLOPS 135.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GP104 GK104
GPU Variant GP104-200-A1 GK104-400-A2
Architecture Pascal Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7.2 billion 3.54 billion
Die Size 314 mm² 294 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 195W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.2.175
CUDA 6.1 3.0
Shader Model 6.4 6.5 (5.1)