NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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
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 PhysX Edition
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Unknown
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)
-
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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GT215
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GT215-400-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
