NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
May 2012
Generation
GeForce 600
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1006 MHz
915 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
980 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
192.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
1344
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
27.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
109.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
2.634 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
109.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
GK104
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
GK104-325-A2
Architecture
Kepler
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
170W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.1
CUDA
3.0
3.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.1