GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 460
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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 9 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
1200 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+258%
3250
GeForce GTX 460
907
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jul 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
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
86.40GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
7
1536
Shading Units
336
128
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
24
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.450 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.80 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
907.2 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
160W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GF104
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GF104-300-KB-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
332 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
