GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs GeForce 9600M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS 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 4 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+3101%
2209
GeForce 9600M GS
69
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
1536
Shading Units
32
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.440 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.880 GTexel/s
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
68.80 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
20W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G96C
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
NB9P-GE2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
121 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
