GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+257%
3250
AMD Radeon 540
908
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 600
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
32bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
1536
Shading Units
384
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
908.5 GFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
908.5 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
56.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Lexa
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
