AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1471MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Lower TDP (195W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +224%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +245%

6876

GeForce GTX 680

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Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2012

Vega

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

224

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GK104

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

195W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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