NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 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 late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+1131%
3.25 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GSO
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Apr 2008
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 9
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
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
12
1536
Shading Units
96
128
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
84W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 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
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G92
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
