GeForce GTX 680 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GK104
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
June 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
1480 MHz
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
1265 MHz
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,090.4 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.8 billion/sec
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2048 MB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256-bit GDDR5
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
-
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-