NVIDIA · Kepler (derived from codename prefix) · 2012
GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GTX 680: 2 GB GDDR5, 195 W, 1,536 CUDA cores. Launched March 22, 2012 at $499.
- Memory
- 2 GB
- Power
- 195 W
- Bus width
- 256 bit
Memory2 GB
64 of 143 in GeForce GTX
Power195 W
36 of 154 by higher draw in GeForce GTX
CUDA cores1,536
23 of 158 in GeForce GTX
Launch price$499
22 of 92 in GeForce GTX
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 2 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 1,502 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 192.3 GB/s
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 1,536
- SM count
- 8
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- FP32
- 3,090.432 GFLOPS
- FP64
- 128.768 GFLOPS
- Pixel fill rate
- 32.19 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 128.77 GT/s
Clocks
- Boost clock
- 1,006 MHz
Board
- TDP
- 195 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- External power required
- Yes
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 499 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- Kepler (derived from codename prefix)
- Codename
- GK104-400-A2
- Process
- 28 nm
- Transistors
- 3.54 billion
- Die size
- 294 mm²
- Series
- GeForce GTX
- Launch date
- March 22, 2012
Not recorded by the source: generation and base clock.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the GeForce GTX 680 ranks 42nd of 121 for FP32 throughput and 64th of 143 for memory capacity. Its 195 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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