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Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

The Geforce GTX 680 has core speeds of 1006 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 380X 9519 points
Geforce GTX 680 7650 points
Difference: 1869 (24%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380X 19 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680 16 Mh/s
Difference: 3 (19%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X 190 Watts
Geforce GTX 680 195 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 680 should be a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 380X in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 192256 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X 182400 MB/sec
Difference: 9856 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 is just a bit (approximately 4%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X 124160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4608 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 should be just a bit (approximately 4%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 380X, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X 31040 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1152 (4%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 680 Radeon R9 380X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2012 November 2015
Code Name GK104 Tonga XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1006 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 195 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 192256 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128768 Mtexels/sec 124160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32192 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 2048
Texture Mapping Units 128 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3540 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 680

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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