NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V8800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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 3 years late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)
Lower TDP (195W vs 208W)
ATI FirePro V8800 's Advantages
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+23%
3.25 TFLOPS
FirePro V8800
2.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 600
Generation
FirePro
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
1150 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1600
128
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
208W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Cypress
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
