GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs Iris Xe MAX Graphics
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics 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 68.26GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (25W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2209
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+14%
2534
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Oct 2020
GeForce 600M
Generation
HD Graphics-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
300 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1650 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2133 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
68.26GB/s
Render Config
1536
Shading Units
768
128
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
24
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.60 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
79.20 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.069 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.534 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
633.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
25W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
DG1
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.1
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
28 nm
Process Size
10 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
Unknown
294 mm²
Die Size
95 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
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
