GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs FirePro W7000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
FirePro W7000 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+33%
3250
FirePro W7000
2432
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 600
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
1536
Shading Units
1280
128
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.432 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
152.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
