AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Oct 2012
Generation
FirePro
GeForce 600M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
160.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
1536
TMUs
112
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
23.01 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GK104
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
N13E-GTX2-A2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
294 mm²

Board Design

TDP
225W
122W
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
-
3.0