GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 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 67.20GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W 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
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
67.20GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.72 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.72 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
125W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VHDCI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
R580+
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
Kepler
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.384 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
352 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