Technical data / Specifications

With the TGT GeForce GTX 680 BEAST LLS you get a factory overclocked card with a close-to-reference PCB design cooled by a huge triple fan cooler. The ASIC quality measured on our sample was 75.7 %. It's above average but it's nothing really special.
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Looking at clock speeds we see that the GPU runs at 1'163 MHz with a typical boost of 1'229 MHz. In comparison, the stock designed GTX 680 runs at 1'006 MHz with a typical boost of 1'058 MHz. Like most of the GTX 680 out there no factory overclocking has been made regarding the GDDR5 memory which stays clocked at 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz effective) following nVidia's recommendations.
As surprising as it may sound our card was always running at a fixed frequency of 1'241 MHz under load. Like there was no boost and the default clock speed was 1'241 MHz just like our DirectCU II Top that was always working at a fixed clock of 1'201 MHz. We like it!

	TGT GTX 680 BEAST LLS	ASUS GTX 680 DCU II Top	EVGA GTX 680 SuperClocked	MSI GTX 680 Twin Frozr OC	GeForce GTX 680
Chip	GK104	GK104	GK104	GK104	GK104
Process	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	3.54 billion	3.54 billion	3.54 Billion	3.54 billion	3.54 Billion
GPU clock	1'163 MHz (Boost 1'229 MHz)	1'201 MHz	1'058 MHz (Boost 1'124 MHz)	1'059 MHz (Boost 1'124 MHz)	1'006 MHz (Boost 1'058 MHz)
Memory	2'048 MB GDDR5	2'048 MB GDDR5	2'048 MB GDDR5	2'048 MB GDDR5	2'048 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'550 MHz (6'200 MHz)	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)
Memory interface	256 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	192'400 MB/s	192'400 MB/s	192'400 MB/s	192'400 MB/s	192'400 MB/s
TMUs	128	128	128	128	128
Shader Cores	1'536 (8 SMX)	1'536 (8 SMX)	1'536 (8 SMX)	1'536 (8 SMX)	1'536 (8 SMX)
ROPs	32 ROP	32 ROP	32 ROP	32 ROP	32 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5
Maximum board power	xxx Watt	xxx Watt	185 Watt	195 Watt	185 Watt

Looking at specifications, the BEAST LLS is the same card as the GTX 680 EXO from Point Of View. The PCB seems to follows the reference design but is slightly different. It's so close to the reference designed PCB we had in our hand that I believe it's a newer revision of it. POV/TGT added the full number of components to the power design unlike MSI on the Twin Frozr OC for exemple. Therefore you get five phases for the GPU and two for the memory.
The voltage regulation chip is the same like on the "old" reference design: it's a Richtek RT8802A.


TGT's graphics card also features two metal plates. The front metal sheet covers the memory chips as well as the power design area to spread the heat in a more efficient way while the backplate is here so the card is more stylish you know.



The cooler that keeps this card at adequate temperatures seems to have certain certain similarities with Arctic's Accelero Xtreme. We believe this one is being manufactured by Spire. The cooler has been made from of a copper base plate, five 6mm heatpipes and a lot of aluminium fins. The fan in the center measures 90 mm in diameter, while the other two measure 80mm. It is really easy to remove the whole plastic part to clean the entire cooling block. The left side of the plastic shield has a perfect spot for a logo, but it was left empty. The manufacturing quality of the cooler is very good even though the plastic part looks cheap.
TGT chose to attach the cooler with four screws to the card. We tried to move the cooler from right to left, even applying force didn't help moving it, which is a good sign. Also the pressure on the graphics core is very good.



The memory chips used, are made by Hynix and carry the model number H5GQ2H24MFR-R0C. They are specified to run at 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz effective).

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