GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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 4 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+1592%
3250
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 9
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
266 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
8
1536
Shading Units
64
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G94
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
