NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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 10 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (195W vs 225W)
AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3.25 TFLOPS
FirePro W8000
3.226 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jun 2012
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
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1792
128
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO 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
