AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• Around 25% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1006 MHz
• Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1340 MHz vs 1058 MHz
• 1498.1x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 128.8 billion / sec
• Around 50% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1536
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 195 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2048 MB
• Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 6008 MHz
• Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8827 vs 5590
• Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 767 vs 531
• 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 39028 vs 18376
• 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 116.142 vs 46.086
• Around 3% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1022.932 vs 989.685
• Around 99% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 9.235 vs 4.645
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 84.034 vs 36.463
• 6.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 607.721 vs 99.577
• Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11281 vs 7222
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3695 vs 3666
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 3306
• Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11281 vs 7222
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3695 vs 3666
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 3306

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

• 498.5x better floating-point performance: 3,090.4 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
• Around 99% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2004 vs 1005

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	8827 5590
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	767 531
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	39028 18376
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	116.142 46.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1022.932 989.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9.235 4.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	84.034 36.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	607.721 99.577
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11281 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3695 3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3349 3306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11281 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3695 3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3349 3306
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	1005 2004

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