NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (95W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+111%
3.25 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 600
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
768
128
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Bonaire
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
