NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (47W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +429%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1536

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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