NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM 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 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+2608%
3.25 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GS OEM
0.12 TFLOPS
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
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
1536
Shading Units
48
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
120.0 GFLOPS
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
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G94
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
240 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
