HARDWARE

In early 2012, AMD HD 7970 performance gear with the shift of the NVIDIA GTX 580 single-GPU throne terkencang. Only in less than three months, apparently NVIDIA has set a weapon to shift the HD 7970 from the throne today, the NVIDIA GTX 680. Can NVIDIA GTX 680 reclaim the throne?

GTX 680 Specifications:

NVIDIA GTX 680 Feature

• Microsoft DirectX 11.1
• NVIDIA 3DVision
• NVIDIA Surround
• NVIDIA 3DVision Surround
• NVIDIA SLI
• NVIDIA PhysX
• NVIDIA CUDA
• FXAA
• TXAA
• Adaptive VSync
• GPU Boost
• PCI Express 3.0 x16
• Dual-link DVI
• HDMI 1.4a
•  Display Port

Platform Pengujian

• Processor : Intel Core i7 3960X @4.5 GHz
• Motherboard : Intel Desktop Board DX79SI
• Graphics Card : AMD HD 7900 Series; NVIDIA GTX 580, 590, 680
• Memory : 4x 2GB Kingston HyperX blu. (@1600 MHz; 1.65 V)

• Storage : Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64 GB
• Power Supply : Corsair AX1200

• CPU Heatsink : Corsair H100 (Fan Speed Minimum)

• Casing : Corsair 500R (All Fan On)

• Monitor : LCD Monitor 1920×1080
• Input : Generic Keyboard and Mouse
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
• Driver : Catalyst 12.2 WHQL; Forceware 296.10 WHQL & 300.99 Beta (NVIDIA GTX 680)

(*) All graphics cards tested on the default settings provided by the driver, in this version.

Testing Results

Synthetic Benchmark

3DMark Vantage

In the DirectX 10 benchmark, the GTX 680 can stick a GTX 590 performance using 2 GPU and superior thin (about 3%) compared to AMD HD 7970. Settings: Performance Preset; PPU Off

In this benchmark GTX 680 DirectX 11 can already be said to have the same performance with the GTX 590. Meanwhile, when compared to the HD 7970 GTX 680 performance superior to 21%. Settings: Performance Preset

Disadvantaged 4 fps of VGA with dual GPU taste is not bad, right? In this test, the GTX 680 superior to 18% compared to the HD 7970. Setting: 1920 × 1080; DirectX 11; High; AF x16, No-AA

First-person Shooter Game

Battlefield 3

It seems that the game is still heavily featuring dual GPU GTX 590 advantage. Meanwhile, although very thin (only 2 fps), HD 7970 is superior to the GTX 680. Setting: 1920 × 1080; Preset - Ultra Quality

Crysis Warhead

GTX 680 can still outperform the GTX 590 GPU with both of his. However, the GTX 680 managed to outperform the HD 7970 around 10%. Setting: 1920 × 1080; DirectX 10; Enthusiast mode; No.-AA

Metro 2033

This game seems like the weight of a large memory. GTX 680 with 2GB memory can not outperform the HD 7970. However, performance is still relatively very high. Setting: 1920 × 1080; DirectX 11; Very High; Advance DOF; No. PhysX-Advance; AF x16; MSAA x4