NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 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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$ 255.00

$ 264.99 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

1261 points

21% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

28 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

17 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

19 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

2038 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

194.26 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13627 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

8002 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

7720 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

18409 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

18023 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

81% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

116% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

137% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

3.25 TFLOPS

78% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1536

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce GTX 680 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 950 has a slightly 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 950 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 680 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the GeForce GTX 950.