GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+553%
3250
FireStream 9170
497
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 600
Generation
FireStream
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
802 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
1536
Shading Units
320
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
105W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
RV670
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1