Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 680 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 680
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 680
5721
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 680
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
March 2012
Bus support
n/a
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
Two 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1058 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
1006 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1536
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
3,090.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
195 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
128.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2048 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-