NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 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 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +506%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 200

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

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

216

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GT200B

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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