NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1201MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +32%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GK104

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

195W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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