NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs ATI FireMV 2250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 and ATI FireMV 2250 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 68% higher core clock speed: 1006 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 53.7x more texture fill rate: 128.8 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2048 MB vs 256 MB
  • 6x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 121x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5566 vs 46
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 530 vs 290
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 1 January 2007
Core clock speed 1006 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 128.8 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 2048 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5566 vs 46
PassMark - G2D Mark 530 vs 290

Reasons to consider the ATI FireMV 2250

  • 6.1x lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 195 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 32 Watt vs 195 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
GPU 2: ATI FireMV 2250

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5566
46
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
530
290
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 ATI FireMV 2250
PassMark - G3D Mark 5566 46
PassMark - G2D Mark 530 290
Geekbench - OpenCL 18397
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 46.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 989.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 36.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 99.577
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3306
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2004

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 ATI FireMV 2250

Essentials

Architecture Kepler R500
Code name GK104 RV516
Launch date 22 March 2012 1 January 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $499
Place in performance rating 560 562
Price now $579.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 12.83

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1058 MHz
Core clock speed 1006 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Floating-point performance 3,090.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1536
Texture fill rate 128.8 billion / sec 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 195 Watt 32 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI... 1x S-Video, 1x DMS-59
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 10.0" (25.4 cm) 170 mm
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.2 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2048 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256-bit GDDR5 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA