NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1440MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +217%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 600

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA100

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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