Radeon R6 Graphics vs GeForce GTX 680

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking361not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.03no data
Power efficiency5.08no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGK104Spectre Lite
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date22 March 2012 (12 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536384
Core clock speed1006 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speed1058 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)195 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate135.414.40
Floating-point processing power3.25 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs12824

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length254 mmno data
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2048 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256-bit GDDR5System Shared
Memory clock speed1502 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsOne Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPortNo outputs
Multi monitor support4 displaysno data
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.24.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2012 17 September 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 195 Watt 15 Watt

R6 Graphics has an age advantage of 2 years, and 1200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon R6 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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