NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs 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
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
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
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
1536
Shading Units
32
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
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 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
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
