NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +1983%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G94B

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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