NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1201MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +32%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GM206

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Kepler

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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