NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 519.99

$ 4.97 slightly less expensive

$ 524.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

3755 points

197% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

96 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

45 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

64 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

35 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2038 points

51% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

1954.21 points

905% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

84002 points

516% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

76373 points

366% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

58378 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

73300 points

298% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

69543 points

285% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

79% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

1200 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

288 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

70 W

178% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

57.6 Gigapixels/s

70% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

7.99 TFLOPS

145% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

3328

116% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

104

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

246th of 586

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 680 vs RTX A2000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the RTX A2000 beats the GeForce GTX 680 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 680 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. Despite this, the RTX A2000 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 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 RTX A2000 over the GeForce GTX 680.