NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W4100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4100 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro W4100 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+403%
3.25 TFLOPS
FirePro W4100
0.645 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Aug 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
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
512
128
TMUs
32
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
10.08 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.16 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
645.1 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
40.32 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Cape Verde
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO GL
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
123 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
