GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition and Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GK104
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
June 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1058 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1006 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,250 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
195 Watt
228 Watt
Texture fill rate
135.4
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
4780 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.3 GB/s
153.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
3.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A