Radeon RX 580G vs GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1330MHz 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)
Radeon RX 580G
+88%
6129
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3250
Graphics Card
Oct 2018
Release Date
Apr 2013
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1257 MHz
Base Clock
1006 MHz
1330 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
2304
Shading Units
1536
144
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
42.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
191.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
6.129 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.129 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
383.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
195W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 20
GPU Name
GK104
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Kepler
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
