NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 195W)
NVIDIA 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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+1592%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 9
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
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
195W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GK104
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
