NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

GPU Specs Compare

G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA 2012-03
G

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD 2013-05

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2012
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 600
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1006 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1375 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
88.00GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1536
768
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
12

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GK104
Saturn
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Saturn XT
Architecture
Kepler
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
160 mm²

Board Design

TDP
195W
100W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.2
CUDA
3.0
-
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.3