NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 195W)

Score

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

41W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

RV530

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

Kepler

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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