GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce GT 630

GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GT 630
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 630

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 680
    955%
  • GeForce GT 630
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680

Around 855% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 680 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 680GeForce GT 630
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-400-A2)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs585 million
Shaders1536vs96
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock1006 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs128vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 680GeForce GT 630
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 680GeForce GT 630
TDP195 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date22 Mar 2012vs15 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    3.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 630
    311.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 680
    10700
  • GeForce GT 630
    1120

Points (higher is better)