AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 166% (2815MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (107W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +77%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT +146%

4918

GeForce GTX 680

1999

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2012

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

195W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GK104

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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