Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2018 Apr 2013
Generation Polaris GeForce 600
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1469 MHz 1006 MHz
Boost Clock 1545 MHz 1058 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 256.0GB/s 192.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36
Shading Units 2304 1536
TMUs 144 128
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 49.44 GPixel/s 33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 222.5 GTexel/s 135.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 7.119 TFLOPS 3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 445.0 GFLOPS 135.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Polaris 30 GK104
GPU Variant Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006) GK104-400-A2
Architecture GCN 4.0 Kepler
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 3.54 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 294 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 195W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader Model 6.4 5.1
CUDA 3.0