AMD FirePro W7000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 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 W7000 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W7000
2.432 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+33%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
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
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1280
Shading Units
1536
80
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
195W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
4x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GK104
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
212 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
