GeForce GTX 680 vs Radeon R9 Fury

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon R9 Fury. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon R9 Fury. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 680 Radeon R9 Fury
Power consumption (TDP) 195 Watt 275 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 2048 MB 4 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon R9 Fury has 41% more power consumption, than GeForce GTX 680.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 3.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • GeForce GTX 680 has 2044 GB more memory, than Radeon R9 Fury.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • GeForce GTX 680 is build with Kepler architecture, and Radeon R9 Fury - with GCN 1.2.
  • GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon R9 Fury are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 680 is 5500 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 Fury.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 50−55
ultra / 1080p 21−24 30−35
QHD / 1440p 16−18 27−30
4K / 2160p 10−11 14−16
low / 720p 60−65 75−80
medium / 1080p 40−45 60−65
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 Fury in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 37% more, than GeForce GTX 680.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 680 Radeon R9 Fury
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.2
Code name GK104 Fiji
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 22 March 2012 16 June 2015
Pipelines 1536 3584
Core clock speed 1006 MHz
Boost Clock 1058 MHz 1000 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million 8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 128.8 billion/sec 224.0
Floating-point performance 3,090.4 gflops 7,168 gflops
Length 10.0" (25.4 cm)
Memory bus width 256-bit GDDR5 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 500 MHz
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB/s 512 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 6.3
OpenGL 4.2 4.5
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.1.126 +
CUDA +
FreeSync +
CUDA cores 1536
Bus support PCI Express 3.0 PCIe 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options +
Multi monitor support 4 displays
HDMI + +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI Internal
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Eyefinity +
HD3D +
PowerTune +
TrueAudio +
Mantle +
Bridgeless CrossFire +
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
DisplayPort support +
CrossFire +
VCE +
DDMA audio +
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Compute units 56
AppAcceleration +
High bandwidth memory (HBM) +
LiquidVR +
TressFX +
UVD +
FRTC +
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