NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 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 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 195W)

Score

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

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

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

27W

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

RV516

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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