GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon R9 285

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2013
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Radeon R9 285
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Sep 2014
Radeon R9 285
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    100%
  • Radeon R9 285
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 285

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 680 Mac EditionRadeon R9 285
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-400-A2)vsTonga (Tonga PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders1536vs1792
Compute Units8vs28
Core clock1006 MHzvs918 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 680 Mac EditionRadeon R9 285
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 680 Mac EditionRadeon R9 285
TDP195 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date3 Apr 2013vs2 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    32.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 285
    29.38 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    129.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 285
    102.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 285
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    3090.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 285
    3290.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    10700
  • Radeon R9 285
    10790

Points (higher is better)