NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 295W)
AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1750MHz vs 1058MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
3.25 TFLOPS
Radeon VII
+313%
13.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 600
Generation
Vega II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
1400 MHz
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
60
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
3840
128
TMUs
240
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
112.0 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
295W
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
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Vega 20
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
