GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 143.9GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 166% (2815MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (107W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+77%
5765
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 600
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
2310 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
2815 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2248 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
143.9GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
1536
Shading Units
1024
128
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
90.08 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
180.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
11.53 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.765 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
107W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Navi 24
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
Kepler
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
5.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
107 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6