It’s a never-ending fight between Nvidia and AMD but currently, it can be easily seen Nvidia’s having an edge in it. When ATI Radeon HD 7970 was released it was the most powerful Graphics card in the world but soon after some months Nvidia has fought for the title and built Nvidia GTX 680 which is approximately 30% faster than Ati Radeon HD7970.
Nvidia GTX 680
Nvidia GTX 680 is based on Kepler’s architecture powered with 1,006 MHz that comes equipped with DirectX 11 support, adaptive v-sync, and a new GPU boost feature. This boost feature will optimize overall clock speed which will give a real-time performance in Computer Games (visible).
Tech specifications:
| Stream Processors | 1536 |
| Texture Units | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 |
| Core Clock | 1006 Mhz |
| Shader Clock | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1058MHz |
| Memory Clock | 6.008GHz GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus Width | 256-bit |
| Frame Buffer | 2GB |
| FP64 | 1/24 FP32 |
| TDP | 195W |
| Transistor Count | 3.5B |
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC 28nm |
| Launch Price | $499 |
Pricing: While currently the price is set very high i.e $499, we can build a mid gaming rig at this price. The price is expected to fall soon in the coming months. So watch out for the updated price at regular intervals.
Is it worthy? : When you are paying $499 then this question would definitely appear in your mind as you expect to get the best out of the amount spent. So if saying on current day and times IT IS WORTHY. We can’t say from the future’s perspective, but currently, it is worthy of an Ultimate Gaming experience!