ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +638%

3.25 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2012

FireGL

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GK104

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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