NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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
Lower TDP (195W vs 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+45%
3.25 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 600
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1536
128
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
274W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
