GeForce GTX 680M and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 680M
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N13E-GTX
GP104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
October 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
758 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
720 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
1344
-
Floating-point performance
2,038 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1344
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.6 billion/sec
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Optimus
+
-