NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

AMD Radeon RX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1244MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 +56%

5.095 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 680

1999

Radeon RX 570 +93%

3859

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

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

39.81 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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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