GeForce GTX 680 vs Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1058MHz vs 1000MHz)
Lower TDP (195W vs 375W)
Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
3250
Radeon R9 280X2
+26%
4096
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 600
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
1536
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
375W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1