NVIDIA Quadro M2000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M2000 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro M2000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1163 MHz vs 1058 MHz
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 195 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 6612 MHz vs 6008 MHz

Launch date	8 April 2016 vs 3 April 2013
Boost clock speed	1163 MHz vs 1058 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 195 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz vs 6008 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1006 MHz vs 796 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 135.4 GTexel / s vs 56.64 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 768
Around 79% better floating-point performance: 3,250 gflops vs 1,812 gflops

Core clock speed	1006 MHz vs 796 MHz
Texture fill rate	135.4 GTexel / s vs 56.64 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 768
Floating-point performance	3,250 gflops vs 1,812 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M2000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M2000	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	4000
PassMark - G2D Mark	565
Geekbench - OpenCL	14591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	55.048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	639.056
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.697
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	225.868
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5523
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5523
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3325

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M2000	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Kepler
Code name	GM206	GK104
Launch date	8 April 2016	3 April 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$437.75	$599
Place in performance rating	572	not rated
Price now	$409.99
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	13.23
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1163 MHz	1058 MHz
Core clock speed	796 MHz	1006 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,812 gflops	3,250 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	1536
Texture fill rate	56.64 GTexel / s	135.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	195 Watt
Transistor count	2,940 million	3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort, DP DP DP DP	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	201 mm	254 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Width	1" (2.5 cm)
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Shader Model	5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	6008 MHz
Memory type	128 Bit	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth		192.3 GB / s
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management