AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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 FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 195W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+553%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2013
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1006 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/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
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
195W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
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
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
