GeForce GTX 880M vs GeForce GTX 680

GeForce GTX 880M
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce GTX 880M
GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    134%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 880M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680

Around 34% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 880MGeForce GTX 680
GPU NameGK104 (N15E-GX-A2)vsGK104 (GK104-400-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1536vs1536
Compute Units8vs8
Core clock954 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 680
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 680
TDP122 wattsvs195 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs22 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    30.53 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    122.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    160.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    2930.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    7980
  • GeForce GTX 680
    10700

Points (higher is better)