NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Price

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$ 206.47

$ 313.52 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

15% slightly better overall score

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

31 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2038 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

194.26 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13627 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

8002 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7720 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18409 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

160% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

31% slightly higher pixel rate

33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

102% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS

3.25 TFLOPS

52% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1536

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 680 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 680 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti over the GeForce GTX 680.