NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Apr 2021
Generation
GeForce 600
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1006 MHz
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1695 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
8192
TMUs
128
256
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
6 MB
SM Count
-
64
Tensor Cores
-
256
RT Cores
-
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
GA102
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
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Architecture
Kepler
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
230W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.3
CUDA
3.0
8.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7