GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 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 8 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 195W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Aug 2004
GeForce 600
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
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
250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
25W
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
NV43
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Kepler
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
154 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
