GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 195W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 600
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
690 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
44.16GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
12
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.900 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.900 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
130W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
RV570
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
RV570 XT
(215PADAKA12FG)
Kepler
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0