GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 4850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 680 vs Radeon HD 4850
GeForce GTX 680
5721
Radeon HD 4850
1057
GeForce GTX 680
Radeon HD 4850
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code name
GK104
RV770
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
June 2008
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,090.4 gflops
1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
800
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.8 billion/sec
25.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2048 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256-bit GDDR5
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
993 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
63.55 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A