GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs FirePro W7170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W7170M 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2209
FirePro W7170M
+34%
2961
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Oct 2015
GeForce 600M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
1536
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.14 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.54 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.961 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.961 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
185.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Amethyst
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT GL
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
5 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
