Radeon HD 6680G2 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6680G2
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
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Polaris 30
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2011
November 2018
Interface
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PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
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1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
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1545 MHz
Core clock speed
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1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
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5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
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175 Watt
Texture fill rate
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222.5
Memory type
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GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
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8 GB
Memory bus width
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256 Bit
Memory clock speed
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8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
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256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
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1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
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+
DirectX
11
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
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2.0
OpenGL
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4.6
Shader Model
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6.4
Vulkan
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1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+