This article was reprinted with permission from Superpower.com.
Recently, the foreign media Techspot seems to be cherishing the memory of classic graphics cards. It constantly tests the old flagship graphics cards of NVIDIA and AMD. This time they tested a GTX 680. As a flagship card that was launched six years ago, what is it like today? What about the level?
Today, the more expensive and more expensive the graphics cards are, the desire of everyone to upgrade the graphics cards is hampered by the high prices. Do you think that your family's graphics card can still be in battle for several years?
Techspot is testing a GTX 680 which is a cultivating engine. A very special place is that its fans are installed in the middle of the fins instead of the common top.
GTX 680 is the first graphics card based on Kepler architecture, built using 28nm process, GK104 core it, with 1536 CUDA seems to be just a low-end graphics card today, at that time it was incredible, it was already three times The level of the GTX 580, 2GB of video memory, was the strongest gaming graphics card at the time, but AMD finally came up with the HD 7970 with a GPU frequency exceeding 1GHz against the GTX 680.
It's really interesting to compare the old card king to today. Here is the test result of the game test platform built by Techspot using Intel Core i7-8700k+32GB DDR4 memory.
There are eight games tested. Only two games, the GTX 680, are in a leading position, and the others are firmly occupied by the GTX 1050 Ti. However, there is not much difference between the two.
In other words, The performance of GTX 680 is GTX 1050 Ti. To know that the number of GTX 1050 Ti's stream processors is only 768 and the power consumption is only 75W, the energy consumption is much higher than that of the graphics cards.
In the final Techspot said, GTX 680 and GTX 1050 Ti seem to be about the same performance, if you can, of course, buy new and not buy the old, the original price of 139 US dollars GTX 1050 Ti is now sold for 220 US dollars, students in the bag can be considered eBay to buy second-hand GTX 680, 100 dollars can solve the problem slightly, it seems that it seems to be able to fight for more than a few years.
So what kind of video card is in your hands?
