NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q 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 RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1350MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 Max Q
+651%
16.59 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Oct 2012
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
720 MHz
Base Clock
-
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
1536
192
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
129.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
122W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.6
CUDA
3.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
