Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2012 Jan 2012
Generation GeForce 600 Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1006 MHz
Boost Clock 1058 MHz
Memory Clock 1502 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 192.3GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1536 1536
TMUs 128 96
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 768 KB
Compute Units 24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 33.86 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 135.4 GTexel/s 88.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.250 TFLOPS 2.842 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 135.4 GFLOPS 710.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GK104 Tahiti
GPU Variant GK104-400-A2 Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3.54 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 294 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 195W 185W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.175 1.2
CUDA 3.0
Shader Model 6.5 (5.1) 5.1