NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V8650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 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
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+638%
3.25 TFLOPS
FireGL V8650
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Aug 2007
GeForce 600
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/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
11.01 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 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 + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
R600
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
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
4.0
