Comparison of GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 6970

Attribute	GeForce GTX 680 ×	Radeon HD 6970 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2012	2010
GPU brand	Nvidia	AMD
GPU name	GK104	Cayman XT
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,006	880
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,058	-
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTX 680	Radeon HD 6970
Memory
Memory (MB)	2,048	2,048
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	192.3	176
Memory bus (bit)	256	256
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,502	1,375
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	6,008	5,500
Noise and power
TDP (W)	195	250
Load power consumption (W)	356	370
Idle power consumption (W)	112	120
Load noise level (dB)	51.9	53.2
Idle noise level (dB)	38.5	42.7
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	32.2	28.16
SMX units	8	-
Render output processors	32	32
Texture mapping units	128	96
Shading units	1,536	1,536
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	3,090	2,703
Compute units	-	24
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	128.8	84.48
Benchmarks
Battlefield 3	-	57
Battlefield 4	64.3	90
Face detection (mPixels/s)	47.72	18.68
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3360.28	3351.26
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3719.86	3706.33
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	123.57	274.06
Sky Diver Factor	381.6	255.16
Thief	54.05	-
Fire Strike Factor	60.74	37.18