NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1206MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +32%

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 600

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

1536

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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