NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 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 7 years late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 195W)

Score

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 600

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

NV43

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Kepler

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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