GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2209
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+616%
15820
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 600M
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1110 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
40
1536
Shading Units
5120
128
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
AD104
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
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
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
