NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 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 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2004

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/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 DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

NV41

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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