NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock900MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
Arc A550M
+66%
3.686 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 600M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
300 MHz
-
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
DG2-512
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
