GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs GeForce 8800M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+1280%
2209
GeForce 8800M GTS
160
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
8
1536
Shading Units
64
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
50W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G92
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
NB8E-GT-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
