NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon HD 7900

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7900, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points
7% slightly better overall score
1178 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

28 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS
Identical
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS
23 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points
32996 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points
33694 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points
31425 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points
32351 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586
252nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 680 vs Radeon HD 7900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the Radeon HD 7900 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 680 over the Radeon HD 7900.

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