GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon RX 580X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1340MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (185W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
Radeon RX 580X
+90%
6175
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Apr 2018
GeForce 600
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1257 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1340 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
1536
Shading Units
2304
128
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.88 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
193.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.175 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.175 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
385.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
185W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Polaris 20
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
232 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