NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI355X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 288GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI355X 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
Lower TDP (195W vs 1400W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI355X 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 98% (2100MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (288GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (8.19TB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
17920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3.25 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI355X
+2414%
81.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 600
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
2100 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
288GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM3e
256bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
8.19TB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
304
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
19456
128
TMUs
1216
32
ROPs
0
-
Tensor Cores
1216
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
L3 Cache
256 MB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2553.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
653.7 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
81.72 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
81.72 TFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
1400W
450 W
Suggested PSU
1800 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
Aqua Vanjaram X
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
CDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
3 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
153 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
1017 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
N/A
