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Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

The Geforce GTX 680 features core speeds of 1006 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which features a clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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 RX 470 11756 points
Geforce GTX 680 7650 points
Difference: 4106 (54%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 26 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680 16 Mh/s
Difference: 10 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 120 Watts
Geforce GTX 680 195 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 should theoretically be a little bit better than the Geforce GTX 680 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 211200 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680 192256 MB/sec
Difference: 18944 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 should be a small bit (approximately 9%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 118528 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10240 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 29632 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2560 (9%)

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 RX 470
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2012 August 2016
Code Name GK104 Polaris 10
Memory 2048 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1006 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 195 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 192256 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128768 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32192 Mpixels/sec 29632 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 14 nm
Transistors 3540 million 5700 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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 680

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