Quadro FX 4800 and GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition - video card comparison

Quadro FX 4800

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

GT200B

GK104

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

November 2008

April 2013

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Core clock speed

602 MHz

1006 MHz

Floating-point performance

462.3 gflops

3,250 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

3,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

195 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.53

135.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

6008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

1.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126