GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 680
    100%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    139%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 680
    100%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    165%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 TITAN BLACK

65% 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)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 680GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-400-A2)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1536vs2880
Compute Units8vs15
Core clock1006 MHzvs889 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 680GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 680GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
TDP195 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date22 Mar 2012vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    53.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    213.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    336.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    5121.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 680
    10700
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    14880

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 680
    46
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    80

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 680
    41
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    64

FPS (higher is better)