GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
Lower TDP (195W vs 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+19%
3250
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 600
Generation
Evergreen
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
1200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
1536
Shading Units
1600
128
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
228W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Cypress
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0