NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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
Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3.25 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+76%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 600
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2304
128
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
