GeForce GTX 680 vs Radeon R9 280
Summary
GeForce GTX 680
109%
Radeon R9 280
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680 |
| Around 9% higher average synthetic performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 280 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 680
The GeForce GTX 680 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 680 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 (GK104-400-A2) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO3) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 1006 MHz | vs | 827 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 128 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 680 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 680 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 195 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 22 Mar 2012 | vs | 4 Mar 2014 |
GeForce GTX 680
32.20 GP/s
Radeon R9 280
29.86 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 680
129.00 GT/s
Radeon R9 280
104.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 680
192.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 280
240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 680
3090.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280
3344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 680
10700
Radeon R9 280
9790
Points (higher is better)