ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +170%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Apr 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GK104

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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