GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce 310 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
GeForce 310 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+7122%
3250
GeForce 310 OEM
45
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
5.328GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
2
1536
Shading Units
16
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
31W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GT218
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GT218-300-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
