Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2012 | Mar 2014 |
| Generation | GeForce 600 | GeForce 800M |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | MXM-B (3.0) |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1006 MHz | 941 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1058 MHz | 967 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1502 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 192.3GB/s | 120.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1536 | 1344 |
| TMUs | 128 | 112 |
| ROPs | 32 | 24 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 16 KB (per SMX) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 384 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 33.86 GPixel/s | 27.08 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 135.4 GTexel/s | 108.3 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.250 TFLOPS | 2.599 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 135.4 GFLOPS | 108.3 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK104 | GK104 |
| GPU Variant | GK104-400-A2 | N15E-GT-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 | 100W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | None |
| 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 |