NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 6 years late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +3394%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 8

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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G84

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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