NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 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 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +19%

3.25 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Sep 2010

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

1150 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1536

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Cypress

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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