GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 1070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1683MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
GeForce GTX 1070
+98%
6463
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jun 2016
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
15
1536
Shading Units
1920
128
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GP104
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
