Radeon HD 4670 X2 vs GeForce GTX 680

Radeon HD 4670 X2
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4670 X2
GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4670 X2

77 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 680 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 680

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 680

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4670 X2GeForce GTX 680
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsGK104 (GK104-400-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders320vs1536
Compute Units4vs8
Core clock750 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs32vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4670 X2GeForce GTX 680
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bit x2vs256 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4670 X2GeForce GTX 680
TDP118 wattsvs195 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs22 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670 X2
    12.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670 X2
    48.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4670 X2
    44.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4670 X2
    960.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better