AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 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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$ 519.00

$ 0.99 slightly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9568 points

658% significantly better overall score

1261 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

196 FPS

167 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

143 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

173 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

16155 points

692% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2038 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1896.07 points

876% significantly higher Blender score

194.26 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

129800 points

1522% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8002 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130322 points

696% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93163 points

470% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

176154 points

2181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7720 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130005 points

606% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18409 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

133046 points

638% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

18023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1815 MHz

80% significantly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz

98% significantly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

195 W

28% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s

496% significantly higher pixel rate

33.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

505.2 Gigatexels/s

273% significantly higher texture rate

135.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.17 TFLOPS

397% significantly better floating point performance

3.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

150% significantly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

87% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 586

246th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 6800 vs GeForce GTX 680 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6800 beats the GeForce GTX 680 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly lower TDP at 195 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 is better than the GeForce GTX 680.