AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 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 S9300 X2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock1058MHz
Lower TDP (195W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S9300 X2
+145%
7.987 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
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
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
1536
256
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
62.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
249.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
7.987 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
499.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
195W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Capsaicin
GPU Name
GK104
Capsaicin XT
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.0
Shader Model
5.1
