NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (195W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
1.089 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+198%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 400
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
837 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
320bit
Memory Bus
256bit
133.9GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
448
Shading Units
1536
56
TMUs
128
40
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
640 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.02 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
34.05 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1089 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
195W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
GK104
GT215-400-A2
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
2.0
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
