GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce GTX 680

GeForce GTX 295
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 295
GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 295
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    240%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 295

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680

94 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 295 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 140% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 680

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 680

The GeForce GTX 680 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 295GeForce GTX 680
GPU NameGT200B (G200-400-B3)vsGK104 (GK104-400-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders240vs1536
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock576 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs28vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 295GeForce GTX 680
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width448 bit x2vs256 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 295GeForce GTX 680
TDP289 wattsvs195 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2009vs22 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 295
    32.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 295
    92.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 295
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 295
    1192.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 295
    4440
  • GeForce GTX 680
    10700

Points (higher is better)