Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce GTX 680

Radeon RX 570
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 570
GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 570
    132%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570

32% higher gaming performance.
75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 680 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 570

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 570

The Radeon RX 570 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 680
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsGK104 (GK104-400-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders2048vs1536
Compute Units32vs8
Core clock926 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 680
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 680
TDP120 wattsvs195 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs22 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    154.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • Radeon RX 570
    82
  • GeForce GTX 680
    61

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • Radeon RX 570
    56
  • GeForce GTX 680
    42

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • Radeon RX 570
    30
  • GeForce GTX 680
    23

FPS (higher is better)