GeForce GTX 260M vs GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M 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
GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 122W)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)
1424 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 260M
308
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+617%
2209
Graphics Card
Mar 2009
Release Date
Oct 2012
GeForce 200M
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
950 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
60.80GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1536
56
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
30.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
308.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
122W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GK104
N10E-GT
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
