NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1545MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +119%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1536

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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