AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2014
Mar 2012
Generation
Crystal System
GeForce 600
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1006 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1058 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
192.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
-
Shading Units
1024
1536
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GK104
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
GK104-400-A2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
195W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.175
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
CUDA
-
3.0