NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1275MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +24%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 680 +12%

1999

Radeon RX 560

1780

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

3 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

123 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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