FireStream 9250 vs GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 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
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+225%
3250
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Apr 2013
FireStream
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
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
800
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
195W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GK104
RV770 PRO
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
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