NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD FirePro W5100
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Mar 2014
Generation
GeForce 600
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1006 MHz
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Boost Clock
1058 MHz
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Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
768
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
14.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
44.64 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
1428 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
89.28 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
Bonaire
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
Bonaire PRO GL
Architecture
Kepler
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
50W
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.2
CUDA
3.0
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Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.