NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Lower TDP (115W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+64%
3.25 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260X
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 600
Generation
Volcanic Islands
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
1625 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
896
128
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
115W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Bonaire
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
