GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon RX 560
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 112.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 560 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1275MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+24%
3250
Radeon RX 560
2611
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 600
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1175 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1275 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
1536
Shading Units
1024
128
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.40 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
81.60 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.611 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.611 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
163.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Polaris 21
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XT
(215-0908004)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
3 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4