In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 2050 Ti 4GB are noticeably better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 Galaxy Edition.

The GTX 2050 Ti has a 180 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 680, but the GTX 680 has 80 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 2050 Ti. As a result, the GTX 680 exhibits a 80.2 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GTX 2050 Ti. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GTX 2050 Ti has a 180 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 680 and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the GTX 2050 Ti providing 5.8 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The GTX 680 was released over three years more recently than the GTX 2050 Ti, and so the GTX 680 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GTX 2050 Ti when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The GeForce GTX 2050 Ti 4GB and the GeForce GTX 680 Galaxy Edition have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The GTX 680 has 80.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 2050 Ti, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 680 is much better than the GTX 2050 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 2050 Ti 4GB has 768 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 680 Galaxy Edition has 1536. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 2050 Ti is 1069 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 680 is 1806. The GTX 680 having 737 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 680 delivers a significantly smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GTX 2050 Ti.

The GTX 2050 Ti transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 680. This means that the GTX 2050 Ti is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 680.

The GeForce GTX 2050 Ti 4GB requires 75 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 680 Galaxy Edition requires 195 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the GTX 2050 Ti and a PSU with at least 550 Watts for the GTX 680. The GTX 680 requires 120 Watts more than the GTX 2050 Ti to run. The difference is significant enough that the GTX 680 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 2050 Ti.