AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock1058MHz
Lower TDP (195W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+45%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2013
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1006 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1536
96
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
195W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GK104
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
