AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 195W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
1.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+170%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Apr 2013
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1006 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
195W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GK104
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
