NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +1592%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

1536

Shading Units

64

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G94

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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