NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M 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 2 years and 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
1184 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+269%
2.209 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480M
0.598 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
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1250 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
11
1536
Shading Units
352
128
TMUs
44
32
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
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-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.350 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.70 GTexel/s
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-
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2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
598.4 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
74.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
100W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GF100
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
N11E-GTX-A3
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
