NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 3 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (195W vs 289W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+445%
3.25 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 295
0.596 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jan 2009
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
30
1536
Shading Units
240
128
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
46.08 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
596.2 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
74.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
289W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GT200B
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
G200-401-B3
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
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
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
