AMD Radeon R7 450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Price

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$ 149.99

$ 370.00 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

297 points

1261 points

324% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

28 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

17 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

19 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

14 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10702 points

16368 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9779 points

16340 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10058 points

18409 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8478 points

18023 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

167% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

200% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

128% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

357% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1536

200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

379th of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.5

Radeon R7 450 vs GeForce GTX 680 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the Radeon R7 450 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 450 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 680 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 450 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the Radeon R7 450.