NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD FirePro V5900
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
+429%
3.25 TFLOPS
FirePro V5900
0.614 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce 600
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
512
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.20 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
614.4 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Cayman
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Cayman LE WS
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
