ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 195W)

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

Score

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Mar 2012

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

690 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

44.16GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1536

12

TMUs

128

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.900 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

6.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

195W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

GK104

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

R500

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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