NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 399.00

$ 120.99 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

94% significantly better overall score

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

194.26 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13627 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8002 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7720 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18409 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

61% significantly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

0.05% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

62% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

142% significantly higher pixel rate

33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

0.96% slightly higher texture rate

135.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

3.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1536

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

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

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs GeForce GTX 680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB beats the GeForce GTX 680 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB over the GeForce GTX 680.