GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 680 vs Radeon 540
GeForce GTX 680
5721
Radeon 540
1420
GeForce GTX 680
Radeon 540
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GK104
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
April 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
1183 MHz
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,090.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
384
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.8 billion/sec
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2048 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256-bit GDDR5
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
24 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3