GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs GeForce GTS 260M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M 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 3 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (38W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+736%
2209
GeForce GTS 260M
264
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jun 2009
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 200M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
12
1536
Shading Units
96
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
38W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GT215
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
N10E-GS
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
