GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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
Lower TDP (195W vs 580W)
Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
Radeon R9 290X2
+73%
5632
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jun 2014
GeForce 600
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
1536
Shading Units
2816
128
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
580W
450 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Hawaii
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
