GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2209
GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
+155%
5648
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1215 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
16
1536
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
88.26 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
88.26 GFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.648 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
176.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
115W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GP104
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
N17E-G2-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
