nVidias GeForce GTX 680 the fastest single GPU graphics card on the planet? Bitch Please! Here we go again, a good old fashioned ATI/AMD vs nVidia like we all love to see. So here's the thing: using latest drivers we're going to show you which is todays fastest single GPU graphics card in the world. Featuring the GTX 680 against the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition under our set of recent 3D Games with highest graphics settings and a resolution of 1920x1080 we will be fixed on the matter. What are we waiting for, let's go!Introduction
Isn't she sexy our little Ruby?
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Test Setup
Hardware
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Specifications
| GeFroce GTX 680 | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
| Chip | GK104 | Tahiti XT2 |
| Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 3.54 billion | 4.31 billion |
| GPU clock | 1'006 MHz (Boost 1'059 MHz)* | 1'000 MHz (Boost 1'050 MHz)* |
| Shader Cores | 1'536 (CUDA 5) | 2'048 (1D) |
| Texture Units | 128 | 112 |
| ROPs | 32 ROP | 32 ROP |
| Memory | 2'048 MB GDDR5 | 3'072 MB GDDR5 |
| Memory clock | 1'502 MHz (6'008 MHz) | 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz) |
| Memory interface | 256 Bit | 384 Bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 192'400 MB/s | 288'000 MB/s |
*Boost frequency has been blocked so they don't exceed spces, in other words the GTX 680 doens't clock itself over 1'059 MHz and the HD 7970 doesn't clock itself over 1'050 MHz
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Benchmarks and Games Settings
Futuremark
- 3DMark 11
(1.0.3)
- GPU Test - Performance Preset
- 3DMark Vantage (1.1.0)
- GPU Test - Performance Preset
Unigine Heaven DX11 Benchmark
| Version | 3.0 |
| API | DirectX 11 |
| Tessellation | Extreme |
| Shaders | High |
| Anisotropy | 16x |
| Stereo 3D | Disabled |
| Anti-aliasing | 8x |
| Full Screen | Yes |
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
Geeks3D TessMark
| Version | 0.3.0 |
| Map Set | Set 4 (2048 x 204 |
| Tesselation | Insane (x64) |
| Full Screen | Yes |
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| Anti-aliasing | 8x |
| Tessellation | High |
| Duration | 60000 (ms) |
Geeks3D FurMark (Burn-in test)
| Version | 1.10.0 |
| Full Screen | Yes |
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| Anti-aliasing | 8x MSAA |
Alien vs Predator DX11 Benchmark
| Texture Quality | Very High |
| Shadow Quality | High |
| Hardware Tesselation | Yes |
| Advance Shadow Sampling | Yes |
| Full Srceen Anti-Aliasing Samples | 4x |
| Anisotropic Filtering | 16x |
| SSAO | On |
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
Batman: Arkham City Integrated Benchmark
| FullScreen | Yes |
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| V Sync | No |
| Anti-Aliasing | 8x MSAA |
| Stereoscopic 3D Status | No |
| DirectX 11 Features | MVSS And HBAO |
| DirectX 11 Tesselation | High |
| Detail Level | Extreme |
| Dynamic Shadow | Yes |
| Motion Blur | Yes |
| Distortion | Yes |
| Lens Flares | Yes |
| Light Shafts | Yes |
| Reflections | Yes |
| Ambient Occlusion | Yes |
| Hardware Accelerated PhysX | Off |
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (5 Minutes GamePlay)
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| FullScreen | On |
| Vertical Sync | Off |
| Field of view | 70 |
| Motion Blur Amount | Max |
| Graphics Quality | Ultra |
BattleField 3 (5 Minutes GamePlay)
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| Aspect Ratio | Wide 16:9 |
| Anti-Aliasing | 4x |
| Screen Refresh Rate | 60 Hz |
| Sync Every Frame | No |
| Shadows | Yes |
| Specular Map | Yes |
| Depth Of Field | Yes |
| Screen Space Ambient Occlusion | High Quality |
| Soften Smoke Edges | Yes |
| Bullet Impacts | Yes |
| Image Quality | Ultra |
Crysis 2 DX11 + HiRes Texture Pack Benchmark
| Quality | Ultra |
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| Anti-Aliasing | 4x |
| Map | Central Park/Adrenaline |
| Runs | 1 |
| API | DirectX 11 |
| Edge AA | Edge AA |
| Hi-Res Textures | On |
DIRT 2 Integrated Benchmark
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| Refresh Rate | 60 |
| MultiSampling | 8x MSAA |
| VSync | Off |
| Aspect Ration | 16:9 |
| Details | Ultra Preset |
Dragon Age II (5 Minutes GamePlay)
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| Full Screen Mode | Yes |
| Renderer | DirectX 11 |
| Vertical Sync | no |
| Graphics Detail | Very High |
| Anti-Aliasing | 8x |
| Anisotropic Filtering | 16x |
| Screen Space Ambient Occlusion | Yes |
| Diffusion Depth of Field | Yes |
| High Quality Blur | Yes |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (5 Minutes GamePlay)
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
| Aspect Ratio | Wide 16:9 |
| Anti-Aliasing | 8x |
| Anisotropic-Filtering | 16x |
| Details | Ultra |
| Vertical Sync | Disabled |
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat Benchmark
| Preset | Ultra |
| Renderer | Enhan. full dyn. lighting (DX11) |
| Video Mode | 1920 x 1080 |
| MSAA | 4x |
| MSAA for A-tested objects | DX10.0 Style [Standard] |
| SSAO Mode | HDAO |
| SSAO Quality | High |
| Use DX10.1 | No |
| Enable Tesselation | Yes |
| Contact Hardening Shadows | Yes |
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3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
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Unigine Heaven
TessMark
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Alien vs Predator
Batman: Arkham City
DIRT 2
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
BattleField 3
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Crysis 2
Dragon Age 2
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
StarCarft 2
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Power Consumption
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Benchmark Summary
Synthetic Benchmarks
Games
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Performance Index
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Conclusion
Red Team won! that's it.Btw, Isn't she sexy?*
Performance: Let's take a look at the gaming performance
throwing away synthetic benchmarks. Using the latest available drivers on both
sides, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition has proven to be the fastest card on average.
Sometimes faster than the GTX 680 and sometimes slower. Seriously, isn't she sexy?
Back to topic we can see that the HD 7970 GHz Edition is faster than the GTX 680
by 30 % under Alien vs Predator, 21 % under Batman, 11 % under StarCraft II, 7 %
under both Call of Duty and Skyrim and finally 2 % under DIRT 2.
While the GTX 680 was about 10 % faster than the HD 7970 GHz Edition under
S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Crysis 2, BattleField 3 and 3 % under Dragon Age II.
The gaming performance award goes to the HD 7970 GHz Edition.
Power Consumption: Here is where the red team doesn't do well
and where the green team is king. Well you know when it comes to power
consumption, green goes for power saving and eco stuff while red means
overconsumption? Here it is pretty much what we see. I know people don't like
reviewers measuring the power consumption using FurMark, well I tell you: I
don't care! So under FurMark we measured the power consumption of
273 Watts for the HD 7970 GHz Edition and 232 Watts for the GTX 680.
Almost a gap of 40 Watts between these two cards, this isn't nothing while in idle
both cards had the same power consumption.
The Performance/Watts Award goes to the GTX 680.
Price: Using geizhals.at as price comparison tool we can see
that the offer for a reference design AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition starts at 414
Euros for a card from Gigabte. In comparison the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 starts at 460 Euros. In
other words:
The Performance/Price Award goes to the HD 7970 GHz Edition.
This ends with two points for the HD 7970 GHz Edition wheras the GTX 680 only gets one point. So, what do you think?
*Google "Ruby ATI" for more ...
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