NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V8700

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

ATI FirePro V8700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 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

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V8700 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +170%

3.25 TFLOPS

FirePro V8700

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

FirePro V8700

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

1536

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

151W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.0 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

RV770

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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