GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce 6800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 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 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Nov 2004
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
19.20GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.900 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
NV41
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
130 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
