GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTS 450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 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 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+440%
3250
GeForce GTS 450
601
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Sep 2010
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 400
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
902 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
57.73GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
1536
Shading Units
192
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
601.3 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
50.11 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
106W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GF106
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GF106-250-KA-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
