GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1178MHz vs 1058MHz)
Lower TDP (120W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+34%
3250
GeForce GTX 960
2413
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jan 2015
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
1024
128
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 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 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GM206
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
228 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
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
