ATI Radeon X550 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

ATI Radeon X550 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Mar 2012

Radeon R300

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

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1536

4

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

1.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

195W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

R400

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

-

Shader Model

5.1

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