GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce GTX 680

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Memory: 11264Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    320%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

220% higher gaming performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080 TiGeForce GTX 680
GPU NameGP102 (GP102-350-K1-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-400-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size471 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors12,000 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders3584vs1536
Compute Units28vs8
Core clock1480 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs88vs32
TMUs224vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080 TiGeForce GTX 680
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width352 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1376 MHz
11008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size11264 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1080 TiGeForce GTX 680
TDP220 wattsvs195 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs22 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    130.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    332.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    484.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    10609.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    170
  • GeForce GTX 680
    61

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    144
  • GeForce GTX 680
    42

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    78
  • GeForce GTX 680
    23

FPS (higher is better)