AMD FirePro M3900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M3900 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M3900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 122W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1376 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M3900
0.24 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
+820%
2.209 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Oct 2012
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
160
Shading Units
1536
8
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
6.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
-
-
-
240.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
122W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
Seymour
GPU Name
GK104
Seymour GL
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
