GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 680

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Oct 2017
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    253%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

153% higher gaming performance.
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1070 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070 TiGeForce GTX 680
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-300-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-400-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders2432vs1536
Compute Units19vs8
Core clock1607 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs152vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070 TiGeForce GTX 680
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070 TiGeForce GTX 680
TDP180 wattsvs195 watts
Release Date26 Oct 2017vs22 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    107.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    255.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    256.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    8186.00 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 1070 Ti
    154
  • GeForce GTX 680
    61

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    107
  • GeForce GTX 680
    42

FPS (higher is better)