NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +306%

2.209 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 600M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1536

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

92.03 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.209 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

92.03 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Sun

N13E-GTX2-A2

GPU Variant

Sun LE

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

122W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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