GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 780
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition |
55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 . |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 |
Around 28% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780
The GeForce GTX 780 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 780 | |
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GPU Name | GK104 (GK104-400-A2) | vs | GK110 (GK110-300-A1) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 561 mm² |
Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 7,080 million |
Shaders | 1536 | vs | 2304 |
Compute Units | 8 | vs | 12 |
Core clock | 1006 MHz | vs | 863 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 48 |
TMUs | 128 | vs | 192 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 780 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 780 | |
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TDP | 195 watts | vs | 250 watts |
Release Date | 3 Apr 2013 | vs | 23 May 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)