GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce GTX 645 OEM

GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GTX 645 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Apr 2013
GeForce GTX 645 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 645 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 680GeForce GTX 645 OEM
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-400-A2)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders1536vs576
Compute Units8vs3
Core clock1006 MHzvs824 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 680GeForce GTX 645 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 680GeForce GTX 645 OEM
TDP195 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date22 Mar 2012vs22 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 645 OEM
    9.89 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 645 OEM
    39.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 645 OEM
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 645 OEM
    949.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better