NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+1639%
2.209 TFLOPS
GeForce 9700M GTS
0.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
1536
Shading Units
48
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.480 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.72 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
127.2 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
60W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G94
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
NB9E-GS
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
