NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 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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$ 288.88

$ 231.11 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1335 points

5% 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

20 FPS

2 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

16 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2160 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2038 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.67 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

194.26 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13824 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13627 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8636 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8002 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17483 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17236 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

9056 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7720 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18039 points

18409 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19070 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1046 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1085 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

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

224.4 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

195 W

17% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

34.72 Gigapixels/s

2% slightly higher pixel rate

33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

138.9 Gigatexels/s

2% slightly higher texture rate

135.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.33 TFLOPS

2% slightly 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

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

241st 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

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 770 vs GeForce GTX 680 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the GeForce GTX 770 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 770 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 770 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly lower TDP at 195 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 770 at 230 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 680 is better than the GeForce GTX 770.