NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and a Professional market GPU: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 76% (1335MHz vs 758MHz)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

RTX A500 Embedded +168%

5.468 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

RTX A500 Embedded

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2022

GeForce 600M

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Professional

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

435 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

1335 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.72 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.44 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.468 TFLOPS

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.468 TFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA107S

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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