NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W9100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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
Lower TDP (195W vs 275W)
AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3.25 TFLOPS
FirePro W9100
+61%
5.238 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Mar 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
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2816
128
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.52 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
163.7 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.238 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.619 TFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
275W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Hawaii
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Hawaii GL44
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
