AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1600MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (195W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +303%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Apr 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

1536

256

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

195W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GK104

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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