NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +198%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 400

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

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

1536

Shading Units

448

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GF100

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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