NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 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

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1709MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +34%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2257 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

1536

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GP106

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GP106-410-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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