NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 720M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M 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

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 122W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +820%

2.209 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

GK104

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

122W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.1

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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