NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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

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$ 174.97

$ 345.02 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

214% significantly better overall score

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

210% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2038 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

311% significantly higher Blender score

194.26 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

387% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13627 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

274% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

258% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18409 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

244% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

67% 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

288 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

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

84.96 Gigapixels/s

150% significantly higher pixel rate

33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

25% slightly higher texture rate

135.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

67% significantly better floating point performance

3.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

Identical

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

33% slightly 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

124th of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

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 1660 Ti vs GeForce GTX 680 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 680 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a significantly 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 1660 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 680.