NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A550M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition Intel Arc A550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 122W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

2.209 TFLOPS

Arc A550M +66%

3.686 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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Arc A550M

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 600M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

300 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

92.03 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

115.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.373 TFLOPS

2.209 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.686 TFLOPS

92.03 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

DG2-512

N13E-GTX2-A2

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Kepler

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

122W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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