NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 95% (1480MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +85%

3.789 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 680M

189

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +79%

340

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 680M

42

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +45%

61

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 600M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

1344

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

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Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GP106

N13E-GTX-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

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