NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (195W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
1.078 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+201%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 400
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
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
512
Shading Units
1536
64
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
33.73 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1078 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
195W
750 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GK104
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
2.0
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
