ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition 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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Oct 2012
M5x
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
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396 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.67GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1536
4
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.592 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
1.592 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
122W
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-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
M56
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-A2
Ultra-Threaded SE
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.157 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
150 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
