NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 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 2 years late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +1983%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

1536

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

29W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GF119

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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