GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Lower TDP (116W vs 195W)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
691
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+370%
3250
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1006 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
128
24
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
384 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
116W
TDP
195W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
GK104
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
2.1
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
