NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W9000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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
Lower TDP (195W vs 274W)
AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3.25 TFLOPS
FirePro W9000
+22%
3.994 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
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
128
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
31.20 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.994 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
998.4 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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT 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
