NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 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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$ 1253.25

$ 519.99

$ 733.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

1261 points

103% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

19 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1841 points

2038 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.30 points

194.26 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11969 points

13627 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7421 points

8002 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14780 points

16368 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14358 points

16340 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

6454 points

7720 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15314 points

18409 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16269 points

18023 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

915 MHz

1006 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

980 MHz

1058 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

Identical

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

14% slightly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

27.44 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

109.8 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.63 TFLOPS

3.25 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1344

1536

14% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

305th of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 670 vs GeForce GTX 680 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 670 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly 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 680 also has a slightly 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 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 670 has a slightly lower TDP at 170 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the GeForce GTX 670.