Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2012 | Apr 2021 |
| Generation | GeForce 600 | Tesla Ampere |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1006 MHz | 930 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1058 MHz | 1440 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1502 MHz | 1215 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 24GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | HBM2e |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 3072bit |
| Bandwidth | 192.3GB/s | 933.1GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1536 | 3584 |
| TMUs | 128 | 224 |
| ROPs | 32 | 96 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 192 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 24 MB |
| SM Count | 56 | |
| Tensor Cores | 224 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 33.86 GPixel/s | 138.2 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 135.4 GTexel/s | 322.6 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.250 TFLOPS | 10.32 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 135.4 GFLOPS | 5.161 TFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 10.32 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK104 | GA100 |
| GPU Variant | GK104-400-A2 | |
| Architecture | Kepler | Ampere |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | 3.54 billion | 54.2 billion |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | 826 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 195W | 165W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 8-pin EPS |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | N/A |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.175 | N/A |
| CUDA | 3.0 | 8.0 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (5.1) | N/A |