ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 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

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

1496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +6670%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Apr 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

396 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

40

Shading Units

1536

4

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

195W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

GK104

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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