NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Nov 2009
Generation
GeForce 600M
Evergreen
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
719 MHz
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Boost Clock
758 MHz
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Memory Clock
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1344
1600
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
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20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
21.22 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.90 GTexel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.038 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
84.90 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
Hemlock
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX-A2
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Architecture
Kepler
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
294W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
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600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
N/A
CUDA
3.0
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Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Benchmark
Blender
189
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.