NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS 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 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +3593%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/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

4.400 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

40W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G96

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

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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