GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 740A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Lower TDP (33W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+193%
2209
GeForce GT 740A
753
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Aug 2013
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 700A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
384
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.36 GTexel/s
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
33W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GK208
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
GT 740M
Kepler
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.1
3.0
CUDA
3.5
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
