GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 680
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK104
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
June 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,090.4 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.8 billion/sec
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2048 MB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256-bit GDDR5
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
288 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-