GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1480MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (80W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2209
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
+71%
3789
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1063 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1480 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
10
1536
Shading Units
1280
128
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GP106
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
