GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
A2 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1770MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
Lower TDP (60W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
A2
+39%
4531
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 600
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
10
1536
Shading Units
1280
128
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
60W
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 Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA107
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
Unknown
294 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
