AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• Around 95% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 195 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2048 MB
• Around 52% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 807 vs 531
• Around 14% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 20899 vs 18363
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 57.241 vs 46.086
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1223.742 vs 989.685
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.78 vs 4.645
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 89.306 vs 36.463
• 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 268.643 vs 99.577
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3688 vs 3666
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3688 vs 3666

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

• Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1006 MHz vs 850 MHz
• Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1058 MHz vs 850 MHz
• Around 79% higher texture fill rate: 128.8 billion / sec vs 72 GTexel / s
• Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
• Around 34% better floating-point performance: 3,090.4 gflops vs 2,304 gflops
• Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 4800 MHz
• Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5590 vs 3876
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 7222 vs 2521
• Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3306 vs 2595
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 7222 vs 2521
• Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3306 vs 2595

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3876 5590
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	807 531
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	20899 18363
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	57.241 46.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1223.742 989.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5.78 4.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	89.306 36.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	268.643 99.577
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2521 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3688 3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2595 3306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2521 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3688 3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2595 3306

Compare specifications (specs)