GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 780

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2013
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    128%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 780

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780

The GeForce GTX 780 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 680 Mac EditionGeForce GTX 780
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-400-A2)vsGK110 (GK110-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1536vs2304
Compute Units8vs12
Core clock1006 MHzvs863 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs192

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 680 Mac EditionGeForce GTX 780
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 680 Mac EditionGeForce GTX 780
TDP195 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date3 Apr 2013vs23 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    32.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    129.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    192.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    3090.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
    10700
  • GeForce GTX 780
    13770

Points (higher is better)