NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GK104 GK104
GPU variant GK104-400-A2 GK104-355-A2
Architecture Kepler Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 3,540 million 3,540 million
Die size 294 mm² 294 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 3rd, 2013 May 3rd, 2012
Generation GeForce 600 GeForce 600
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 599 USD 999 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 151 in our database 20 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 500 GeForce 500
Successor GeForce 700 GeForce 700

Clocks

Base clock 1006 MHz 915 MHz
Boost clock 1058 MHz 1019 MHz
Memory clock 1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective 1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 192.3 GB/s 192.3 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1536 1536
TMUs 128 128
ROPs 32 32
SMX count 8 8
Cache L1 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 512 KB 512 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 33.86 GPixel/s 32.61 GPixel/s
Texture rate 135.4 GTexel/s 130.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.250 TFLOPS 3.130 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 135.4 GFLOPS (1:24) 130.4 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 254 mm 10 inches 279 mm 11 inches
TDP 195 W 300 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 700 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches
Board number P2000

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.1 1.1
CUDA 3.0 3.0
Shader model 5.1 5.1

Other Features

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