NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +262%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 600

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

1536

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

RV790

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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