NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1695MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +754%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 600

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

1536

Shading Units

8192

128

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA102

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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