GeForce GTX 680 and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GK104
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
-
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,090.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.8 billion/sec
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
2048 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256-bit GDDR5
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
256.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3