NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1340MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +90%

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 680

1996

Radeon RX 580 +118%

4359

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon RX 580

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

1257 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1536

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

Board Design

195W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-pin

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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