NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 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 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1058MHz vs 1019MHz)
Lower TDP (195W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 690
3.13 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+3%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2012
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
915 MHz
Base Clock
1006 MHz
1019 MHz
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1536
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
130.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.130 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
130.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
195W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GK104
GK104-355-A2
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.1
3.0
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
