AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +76%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2013

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

195W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK104

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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