AMD FirePro M6000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages
Lower TDP (43W vs 122W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M6000
1.024 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+115%
2.209 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2012
Release Date
Oct 2012
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
640
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
32.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1024 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
64.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
43W
TDP
122W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Heathrow
GPU Name
GK104
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
