GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon R9 270 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 680 vs Radeon R9 270
GeForce GTX 680
5721
Radeon R9 270
4435
GeForce GTX 680
Radeon R9 270
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK104
Curacao
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
November 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
1 x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,090.4 gflops
2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.8 billion/sec
74.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2048 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256-bit GDDR5
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x 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® 12
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
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-