GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 680
Radeon R9 290X2
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
GK104
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
June 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
4x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
1000 MHz
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,090.4 gflops
2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
2816
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
580 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.8 billion/sec
176.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2048 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256-bit GDDR5
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
345.6 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
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131