NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR 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 13 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
NV10
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
-
