GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 89% (2000MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
Arc A580
+278%
12290
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Oct 2023
GeForce 600
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
3072
128
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
175W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
DG2-512
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
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
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
