GeForce GTX 680M vs FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock758MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
384 additional rendering cores
FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680M
+56%
2038
FirePro M8900
1306
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 600M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
719 MHz
Base Clock
-
758 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
1344
Shading Units
960
112
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
21.22 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
84.90 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
2.038 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
84.90 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Blackcomb
N13E-GTX-A2
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0