AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1545MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +119%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 +138%

4760

GeForce GTX 680

1996

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Mar 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GK104

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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