NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 195W)

Score

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

RV570

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

Kepler

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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