GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon R5 235 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1376 additional rendering cores
Radeon R5 235 OEM 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (35W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+1210%
3250
Radeon R5 235 OEM
248
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 600
Generation
Volcanic Islands
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
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
1536
Shading Units
160
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.100 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.200 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
248.0 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
35W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Caicos
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
67 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