NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1620MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +129%

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

1536

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

TU106

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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